December, 1957
cord
LEADING CLAY JOURNAL
OF THE WORLD
* STRUCTURAL TILE - SEWER PIPE +« DRAIN TILE -« TERRA COTTA + ROOFING TILE + CLAY AGGREGATE
The
mGig-v-talelai-ts
Meeting
Bigger, better sales meetings are on the way
“The Depletion fight
ys
is not over...
DOUGLAS WHITLOCK
Cloud Ceramics doubles
production with new tunnel
kiln
IV: \ 4c) 3. FOR
Bonnot Machinery — custom-tailored to your raw
material and product needs — incorporates nearly
“70 years of built-in integrity of performance”
that assures less down time and reduces mainte-
nance expense .. that adds up to lowest cost
per ton of finished product. Engineering features
such as CONSOLIDATED GEARING, yet with sepa-
rate clutch controls, for pug mills and augers..
SUPER GEARING AND BEARINGS .. . BEST PUG-
GING . .. THOROUGH DEAIRING — all save trouble
and improve production.
And from Bonnot, your inquiry gets the kind of
attention so vital when present and future SIGHTS
must be concentrated on “more and better brick,
tile and pipe.”
Rugged Machines for Constant Low Cost Operation BONNOT’S the Buy
CRUSHERS CUTTERS AUGER MACHINES
HAMMER MILLS REPRESSES VACUUM MACHINES
DRY PANS DIES SPECIAL EXTRUDERS
WET PANS MIXERS PUG MILLS
GRINDERS SPECIAL MACHINES TO ORDER
CANTON 2, OHIO FEEDERS DIRECT FOUNDRY SERVICE
“The solid appearance of these bricks is due largely to
Spencer BRICKAID,” explains W. C.
Superintendent of United Brick and Tile Company, to
Francis, Plant
W. C. Bull, Spencer research scientist. Besides boosting
production, BRICKAID reduces chipping and dryer
cracking. Read complete story below:
“How We Boosted Brick Production In
Tunnel Kiln By 5,000 Bricks Per Day”’
BRICKAID, Spencer Chemical Company's new brick additive, virtually eliminates black
coring, can reduce firing time up to 25% where black coring is the limiting factor:
“The problem of black coring has
almost disappeared since we began
BRICKAID,” de
Francis, Superinten-
using Spencer
clares W. C.
dent of United Brick and Tile Com-
pany’s Vale, Missouri plant. United
has recent!y completed nine months
of intensive scientific tests with
BRICKAID, the new brick liquid
additive developed by Spencer
Chemical Company after two years
of research.
“BRICKAID cuts firing schedules,
too,” says Francis. “We cut ours
from 80 to 70 minutes, and we be-
lieve we could have cut our time
schedule more if needed. As it was,
SPENCER CHEMICAL COMPANY .
“Brick & Clay Record is published monthly by Industrial Publications, Inc.,
$5.00 per year; three years, $10.00; Foreign subscription price
January 2, 1911, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., under the Act of March 3, 1879
we boosted our daily brick produc-
tion by 5,000 through faster firing
schedules. Our bricks had greater
green strength, a great advantage in
handling. With BRICKAID, too,
we can fire difficult shapes
that we
espe-
cially large solid masses
couldn’t handle before.”
BRICKAID is non-inflammable and
non-explosive. It’s also non-corro-
sive when added at the usual rate
to pugmill water. Francis reports no
corrosive effects on Vale equipment
resulting from use of BRICKAID.
BRICKAID now costs 30c a gallon
(40c west of the Rockies). A gallon
is enough for a ton of clay
For more information about
BRICKAID write Sales Manager,
Chemicals; Spencer Chemical Co.,
Dwight Bldg., Kansas City 5, Mo.
ea Brickaid
BRICK ADDITIVE
(™)
(A process patent on the use of BRICKAID is now pending.)
DWIGHT BUILDING
5 S. Wabash, Chicago 38, I!
$7.00 per year; three years, $15.00. Vol. 131, No
Additional entry at Pontiac,
a KANSAS CITY 5, MO.
Subscription price: U. S. A. and Canada,
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LOW MAINTENANCE
This Hewitt-Robins Jones feeder table at United States Steel’s
Fairless Works provides a uniform supply of sinter fines from an
overhead hopper to an H-R vibrating conveyor. The table is
mounted directly on the output shaft of a Jones right angle re-
ducer driven by a Jones heavy duty herringbone unit.
Over the past 25 years, the hundreds of Jones feeder table instal-
lations have averaged only 68¢ per year per unit for spare parts.
(his remarkable record of trouble-free operation is the result of
Jones’ long experience with all principal types of feeder table
drives—experience that you can call upon for the right type of
feeder table gearing to meet your specific needs. To find out how
H-R products and services can help you, consult your classified
telephone directory for the nearest H-R representative, or con-
tact Hewitt-Robins, Stamford, Connecticut.
@ HEWITT-ROBINS
CONVEYOR BELTING AND IDLERS POWER TRANSMISSION DRIVES
INDUSTRIAL HOSE VIBRATING CONVEYORS, SCREENS & SHAKEOUTS
Please say “I saw It in B&CR”
Tothe Cdito,
Brick Signboard
Editor, Brick & CLAY Recorp—While
in White Sulphur Springs (at Green-
brier SCPI meeting—Ed.) I gave you
some photos and a blueprint of a
brick sign board. This sign board I
had observed while in Bob Foster’s
territory inspecting some army bar-
racks and it struck me as being a
very good piece of promotion.
Bob had the idea that if all the
brickyards over the country would
put one of these sign boards up, then
SCPI could get out signs and there
could be new ones applied to the
boards every so often. I thought that
was a capital idea
W. W. Coates Jr.
The Coates Co.
Austin, Tex
Ed. Note Photo of the sign board is
pictured here to illustrate the idea
The Bob F oater referred to ia, of
course, H. B. Foster of B) ck & Tile
Service in North Carolina
Wants Kiin
Editor, Brick & CLAY RECORD I
have recently built here in Chihuahua
(Mexico) a factory, producing from
20,000 to 25,000 brick per day, and I
am now interested in securing a Dry-
er-Kiln. I am looking for a kiln for
this production. If you have any
names where we can purchase this
kiln please let me know, as I would
indeed be grateful to you.
Ing. Raul Arreola C.
Bolivar o. 507
Chihuahua, Chih., Mex.
(Continued on page 67)
BRICK & CLAY RECORD
Cloud Ceramics
New tunnel kiln doubles plant output; stress is
on mechanical handling, efficiency
SCPI Greenbrier Meeting
Key points are bigger sales meetings for ‘58; the
depletion fight is far from over, says Whitlock. . . .41
NCPMI Phoenix Meeting
Robinson elected president, Reed named vice-
president; advertising campaign has been
successful, says report. . Reet
Knauft's Report
Story of Robert Knavuft's tour of European refractories
plants concludes; this month, Belgium and France. 53
Carnahan and Colors
A continuation of a series on colors for brick, how to
use them and the problems involved
News of the Industry .
Editorial ..
New Products . .
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Couldn't we up th’ cutting wire quota just a little?"’
DECEMBER, 1957
SPLIT LOADS
without STRAPPING
NOW YOU CAN DELIVER THREE SEPARATE
LOADS OF BRICK TO THREE DIFFERENT LO-
CATIONS, ALL FROM ONE INITIAL LOAD-
ING. AND, WITHOUT COSTLY STRAPPING.
THE PACK-HAULER SAVES
“TIME
-MONEY
-LABOR
USED BY THE COUNTRY’S
LEADING BRICK PRODUCERS
Write Today for Complete Information
AMERICAN
TRUCK & BODY CORP.
P. O. BOX 1391
MARTINSVILLE, VIRGINIA
Please say “I saw It in B&CR”
From Kimberly-Clark Research
’
Additive-A ;
IMBERLY-CLARK Additive A is a new liquid clay
K conditioner easily added to the tempering water
with multiple benefits in brick, structural clay products
and clay pipe production. It greatly improves plasticity
and strength, results in more efficient production,
higher yields and more profitable operation.
Kimberly-Clark Additive A is the result of six years
of laboratory experimenting and three years of plant
testing. It is a field-tested product now being
used to advantage in the production of millions of
brick and tile.
Please say “I saw It in B&CR” BRICK & CLAY RECORD
A complete
clay conditioner
with all these
wanted benefits
Increases plasticity and promotes even temper.
Body lubrication reduces lamination.
Increases life of augers, dies and liners.
Promotes even flow through the die with reduced
power consumption.
Increases wet green strength. Ware is more
easily hacked without damage.
Allows faster drying at higher temperatures yet
markedly reduces drier cracks.
Permits block or package setting.
Produces cleaner, brighter colors.
Less shrinkage—more uniformity in size.
General upgrading of all ware
Kimberly-Clark IC Corporation, Neenah, Wisconsin
CHEMICAL PRODUCTS DIVISION
DECEMBER, 1957 Please say “I saw It in B&CR”
ie TAPER‘LOCK
-IT’S INTERCHANGEABLE!
The New Way to Cut Costs
Save time in mounting. Cut down-time on
production machines. Standardize with Taper-
Lock, the interchangeable bushing. The
TAPER-LOCK SHEAVES same Taper-Lock bushing fits sheaves, sprock-
ets, couplings, conveyor pulleys. That means
smaller inventories of power transmission
parts. And it means quicker changes when
necessary to keep production lines running!
Taper-Lock bushings are available in a
range of sizes which makes it easy to change
from one size shaft to another. Taper-Lock
products slip onto the shaft quickly — hold
with the firmness of a shrunk-on fit—come off
easily, without shock to bearings or machinery.
You'll profit by standardizing on Taper-Lock.
DODGE MANUFACTURING CORPORATION
TAPER-LOCK COUPLINGS 4900 Union Street Mishawaka, Indiana
Rigid Flexible Chain
tix
DODGE
A y
TAPER-LOCK STEEL <>) of Mishawaka, Ind.
CONVEYOR PULLEYS
TAPER-LOCK SPROCKETS
CALL THE TRANSMISSIONEER, your loca! Dodge Dis-
tributor. Factory trained by Dodge, he can give you val
vable assistance on new methods. Look for his name under
Power Transmission Mochinery™ in the yellow pages
of your classified telephone directory or write us.
say “I saw It in BECR” BRICK & CLAY RECORD
Here’s cost-saving data for you
This new B&W bulletin contains helpful data on many counts. It gives
(1) basic facts about B&W Insulating Firebrick; (2) advantage of
using IFB in regular and salt glazing periodic kilns; (3) proof of
economy and long life. e Send for your copy of bulletin R-43 today.
SS ,
BAW REFRACTORIES PRODUCTS: B&W Alimu! Firebrick * B&W 80 Firebrick /i COCK
* B&W Junior Firebrick * B&W Insulating Firebrick * B&W Refractory Castables, & WILCOX
Plastics, and Mortars * B&W Silicon Carbide.
*fr a Witcox co
s ‘Vision .
DECEMBER, 1957 Please say “I saw It in B&CR”
tated problem:
Un)
SORM-SELECT BRI
Proven ...day after day!
Owners report excellent production results,
first quality ware and exceptionally high pro-
A, duction rates. Air and gasses are forced in a
an zig-zag fashion through the kiln—evenly
¥ penetrating each stack
Write Miller today for the full story on
famous Cros-Flo Tunnel Kilns
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5028 Alhombro 138 Horriet Drive
Los Angeles 32 Co mney Son Antonio 12. Texas
Pile ase say sy saw It in B&CR”" BRICK & CLAY RECORD
FIREBRICK
THAT CAN TAKE IT!
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Periodic and tunnel kilns need five different quality and composition fire-
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brick for top performance and long service. From intermediate through
High Alumina Quality, WELLSVILLE FIRE BRICK COMPANY can supply re-
fractories to your most exacting specifications. Add to this, WELLSVILLE’S
many years of experience in supplying quality refractories. Whether it's
a new kiln or repairs, you can count on WELLSVILLE for top quality and
top service. We'll be glad to assist you with recommendations on brick,
shapes, castables, plastics and cements.
Write
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WELLSVILLE COMPANY
WECUS VILL &°RYIIGNSIIaEe) “SS OU R
DECEMBER, 1957 Please say “I saw It in B&CR”
a
RECTANGULAR KILN CROWN,
Improve kiln performance with crowns of
ATLAS LUMNITE* refractory concrete
@ Lumnite-made monolithic kiln crowns reduce heat loss
save fuel, provide more uniform burns.
@ Monolithic kiln crown sections are quickly and easily
placed—provide greater structural stability, cut
maintenance costs
@ Service strength is reached within 24 hours, resulting
in less downtime
For maximum convenience, use Lumnite-made castables.
These are packaged mixtures, ready for use. Just add
water, mix and place. Made and distributed by
leading manufacturers of refractories.
For more information write: Universal Atlas,
100 Park Avenue, New York 17, N. Y.
*“LUMNITI ace rk of the ca ’
) : la re by Universal Atlas Cement Company u-tse PAD E-MARK
UNIVERSAL ATLAS CEMENT COMPANY — member oftheindustriaifamily thatservesthe nation— UNITED STATES STEEL
OFFICES: Albany - Birmingham . Boston - Chicago - Dayton . Kansas City . Milwaukee - Minneapolis - New York - Philadelphia - Pittsburgh . St. Louis « Waco
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Bodies of McNally Pittsburg
Kiln Cars are cast to any
desired size, of special heat-
resisting iron—properly
stress relieved.
MacAlloy wheels, double-
flanged one side, straight-
faced other side—keep cars
on track.
No lubricant needed on
these cold-rolled steel axles
—easily cleaned by com-
Photo Courtesy A. P. Green Fire Brick Co.
What makes these Kiln Cars
Stay in Service So Much Longer?
Here’s where years of experience in de-
signing and building equipment for the
basic industries can HELP YOU CUT
COSTS. Here are kiln cars engineered
of special heat-resistant iron normalized
by proper stress relieving—for longer life
—fewer costly work stoppages.
Built
Pittsburg
MacAlloy
bearings protected for long service.
to your specifications, McNally
Kiln
iron—stress relieved—special
Cars feature exclusive
Investigate these engineered kiln cars.
Mail coupon.
pressed air.
“Ask the men who know"—McNally Pittsburg Manufacturing Corp.
Other McNally Equipment
Bevel crown gears
Bevel crown gear
pinions
Muller wheels
Muller tires
Muller track plates
Muller shafts
Manual clutches
Piow holders
Swivel plates for
plows
Screen arms
Screen plates (round
and slotted holes)
Screen plows
All types of sleeves
and bushings for
dry pans
Kilns
Damper rings
Damper ring covers
Pug Mills
Pug Mill shells
Pug Mill shafts
Pug Mill knives
Pug Mill dies
Drain tile dies
Bushings for tile
presses
Brick machine dies
Feeders
Brick transfer car
wheels and axles
Conveyors, belt,
scraper, apron
Pinions, gears,
sprockets, shafts,
axles, and other
parts to your
specifications
GET THIS FREE BROCHURE AND SPECIAL INFORMATION
McNally Pittsburg Mfg. Corp., Dept. B
Pittsburg, Kansas
Please send information and illustrated folder
on MeNally Pittsburg Kiln Cars.
Information on other listed items:
_Title.
Name
Company
City and State
Materials
Equipment
Services
109, Ci Re r S«
SCREEN TRANSFORMER
wast
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110, Circle Reader's
ROCKFACER
iw
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111/Cirecle on Reader's S«
VIBRATING SCREENS
'w bea
112/Cirele Re
GASKET FLOW
Aw
113/Cirel n Reader
A. C. MOTORS
114a/¢ ‘ I
DRY FLUID DRIVE
CLAY CONDITIONER — Additive A
is a new liquid clay conditioner added to
tempering water that increases plasticity
and promotes even temper. Body lubrica-
tion reduces lamination. Increases life of
augers, dies and liners; promotes even
flow through the die with reduced power
consumption. Increases wet green strength:
ware is more easily hacked without dam-
age. Kinnloorhy Cian Corp.., Neenah, Wis.
116/Cirele on er’s Service Coupon
BLACK CORING — Brickaid, Spencer
Chemical Company's new brick additive,
virtually eliminates black coring can reduce
firing time up to 25% where black coring
s the limiting factor. The additive to
Brick is reported to have grueter green
strength, and facilitates handling. Spencer
Chemical Co., Kansas City 5, Mo.
117/Circle on Reader's Serv Coupon
EXTRUSION MACHINE—"We have re-
duced drying and firing losses at least
50°% with our Plymouth Specials which re-
placed machines that did not offer the
de-airing principle.” This letter to Fate-
Root-Heath further goes on to say, “By
eliminating veriables they have greatly
mproved the quality of our product.
Fate-Root-Heath Co., Plymouth, Ohio
118/Cirele on Reader's Service Coupon
GRINDER—The American No. 384 grind
er will efficiently handle hard clay, shale
and other similar materials used in the
manufacture of brick and other clay prod-
ucts. American Clay Machinery reports
thet these materials can be handled wet
or dry and there are no screen pilates to
clog end slow down production. American
Clay Machinery, Marion, Ohio
119/Circle on Reader's Service Coupon
HYDRAULIC BOOSTERS — Hydraulic
power that you cen vary and control at
will and use for such common shop op-
erations as punching, clamping, pressing,
riveting, shearing, welding, etc. Miller
reports Boosters save air, space, and
weight. Miller Fluid Power Div. Melrose
Park Iii.
120/Circle on Reader's Service Coupon
MACHINE BELTS—Ton-Tex reports Oil-
Ex is tough, durable and highly resistant
to oils, water, heat and abrasion. Ojl-Ex
is made of plies of selected cotton duck
bonded together with Neoprene and spe-
cial compounds. Made in 2 types of duck,
7 different weights. Ton-Tex Corp., Grand
Rapids 2, Mich.
121/Cirele on Reader's Service Coupon
DE-AIRING MACHINES — No. 70F Me
chine with advantages of separate drive
operation has in addition, a maximum of
applied horsepower when required for
extrusion. Pugging capacity is reported
to be high. J. C. Steele & Sons, States-
ville, N. C.
122/Cirele on Reader's Service Coupon
DRILLS—Mobile Drilling reports satisfied
users due to full 6 feet stroke, 8,000 Ibs.
hydraulic ram force, separate drill clutch
and centralized |!-man control panel, on
Mobile Drills 8-36 Hydraulic vertical
augers, Mobile Drilling, Inc., Indianapolis,
Ind.
123/Circle on Reader's Service Coupon
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SCREENS
n Reader's
VIBRATING SCREENS
s/f eparatina
on Reader's Service
CHAMBERS MACHINE
machine 5 retined cde
ea
Philadelphia 3!
129/Circle on Reader's Service Coupon
OPACIFIERS—TAM
each have their w
Juc
fication. text
x
economy. C
particle 7e are f | li tandard
tanium A Mfa. Div. New York. N
130/Circle on Reader's Service Coupon
BRICK & CLAY RECORD
GRADERS
132 ‘ R
REFRACTORIES
173/¢ eon R
DUST LOADING
HAMMER MILLS
( Reader's
BRICK FORKS
136 ‘Circle on Reader Ser
FORK-LIFT TRUCKS The
137/Circle on Reader's Service Coupon
DECEMBER, 1957
GLAZE STAINS—Vitro now offers severe
new chrome alumina pinks in the 600
eries that have been improved in
strength to give purer color values with
t undesirable brown spots. They're eas
apply, their initial cost ow, and they
e stable to cone 12. Other Vitro colors
table within any tempere
normally employed and are
be of purest value. Vitro
Mfg. C Pittsburgh 4, Pa
138/Circle on Reader's Service Coupon
SUPERLITE TRUCKS—A t cut of abc
1s reported by Br
be delivered
than if transported
ost and fast, but gentle han
describes Superlite unicad
Equipment Co. Phoenix
Z na
139 Circle on Reader's Service Coupon
How to Get
Rush Information
lf you want further information or litera
ture describing the products in this spe-
cial features, just use the handy card
you will find on page 18. Our Reader's
Service Dept. will contact the manufac-
turers directly and see that you obtain
the requested information as quickly as
possible.
MOTO-BUG — Interchangesble S-!0
Moto-Bug hes an advantage of changing
nto 3 separate units. The Fork-lift has a
ad capacity of 1000 pounds with a lift-
ing height of 6 feet. Hopper converts
Moto-Bug into a 10 cu. ft. power wheel-
barrow which can climb 16% ramps. A
heavy-duty, 34-ton truck can be had just
by changing from hopper or fork-lift to
a 4-foot platform. Kwik-Mix Co., Port
Washington, Wis.
140/Circle on Reader’s Service Coupon
GAS TRUCKS—The Yale G-3 gas truck
is reported to load at 60 ft. a minute
while inching. Power steering and brakes
for maximum maneuverability in tight
areas. No clutch pedal or shifting of
gears is needed. It travels to speeds
up to 20 MPH, with automatic transmis-
sion. For fast, controlled lowering it has
a low center of gravity with high under-
clearance. Capacities from 15,000 to
20,000 Ibs. The Yale & Towne Mfa. Co.
Philadelphia, Pa
141/Circle on Reader's Service Coupon
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STRAPPING
fram k
143
STRETCHERS
144, ¢ eon Re
VULCO ROPES
146/(
CRAWLER
147 /¢
BRICK PACKAGING
ack
equipment
THE LATEST IN SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENTS
Truck Bumpers
Flex-O-Rubber
e mounted anywhere é
truck-dock impact,
breakage Made
, they can
tne Dumper
ick bumpers
styles—specific
truck bed platforms
Bumpers Inc., 2543
-veland 13, Ohio
Electric Powered Strapper
power strapping
in producti
model AE
ses a small 115 V motor
t
vide exact, unvarying
ig
single stroke hand lever sealing and
cutting the strap. The tool reduces
operates “anywhere a
weighs only two
worker fatigue;
light bulb will”:
pounds with 75 seals in the load maga-
zine. Signode Steel Strapping C
Chicago 47, Ill
101 Circle on Reade
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Towing Tractors
industrial towing tractors,
and TG-50, have been added t
Chalmers Mfg. Co. material
equipment line. Both hav:
s and compactness fo
in areas with limited over-
i earance. Allis-Chalmers Mfg
Milwaukee, W
Reader
18.
Ser
Rotating Union
4 compact rotating union for intro-
ducing air or hydraulic oil under
pressure into clutches or power shov-
els, cranes, drag lines, and drilling
rigs, has been introduced by Deublin
Co. Model 1300 comes with rotors
having %” or %” right hand pipe
threads and % 18 N.F. threads. For
hydraulic service—at 1,500 rpm and
2,000 psi—the two micro-lapped end
face sealing elements are 52,100 oil
hardening steel. For air—at 150 psi
a carbon graphite seal is substituted
for the alloy bronze. A hexagon socket
n the end of the rotor shortens over-
hang and makes installation in tight
quarters easier. Servicing can be
easily done in the field without special
tools. Deublin Co., 1155 Waukegan
Rd., Glenview, Il.
103, Circle on Reader’s Service Coupon
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Clipper Accessories
Two new accessor for the Super
matic masonry saws hav been an
Fram
nounced by Clipper. extensions,
both for right and left side use, can
be added now, making double or triple
width saw. The unit allows cutting of
isonry materials up to 7’ in length or
even longer With accessory
ensions, the Supermat an become a
frame ex-
Saw; wet cutting, dry utting,
tra saw, light duty concrete and
double-triple width saw. Retractable
wheels are also available, as is Stow-
4-Way handles. Clipper Mfg. Co.,
Kansas City 8, Mo
104 eon Reade Ser
Wet Cutting Blade
A new wet-cutting 3-ply reinforced
breakage-resistant abrasive blade for
masonry cutting has been announced
by Eveready BrikSaw Co. The blade
is the wet-cutting counterpart of the
Tuffie dry-cutting blade. Reinforced
with fibre glass, the new blade has
additional reinforcing on both sides
and at the hub. The blade comes in a
complete range of specifications for
cutting all types of masonry. More on
the wet-cutting Tuffie from Eveready
BrikSaw Co., Chicago 5.
105/Circle on Reader's Service Coupon
BRICK & CLAY RECORD
increase of 6.7 sq. ft. It is designed
with an ejector of increased height,
and greater apron opening. Rock
guards are standard equipment, to
protect against fouling of draft arms
due to rock spillage. Caterpillar Trac
tor Co., Peoria, Ill.
Reader's
Service ( por
Utility Tractor
International Harvester has an-
nounced a new 330 Utility tractor,
available with matched equipment in-
j
luding backhoes, blades, loaders, snow Better Screening
shovels, etc. Special mounting pads —— at Less Cost
were designed to help speed equip-
ment changeover, Harvester’ says.
The 330 Utility delivers 35 HP at th
belt, ranking between the 130 and 350
Utility models. International Harves-
Co., Chicago 1, Ill
oupor
Shaft Mounted Drive
Falk has announced production of a
new, larger capacity shaft mounted
drive. The all-steel 315J drive is avail
able in single reduction ratio of 5:1
and in two double reduction ratios of
14:1 or 25:1. Unit ratings range from
Caterpillar’s Lowbowl scraper de- 2 hp at 5 rpm to 50 hp at 359 rpm;
i is now available for their D7 maximum torque rating at low speed
Tractor. The new No. 435 scraper re- shaft is 31,000 Ib.-in. All described in
places No. 70. Its lower shape and bulletin 7100 from Falk Corp., Mil-
improved design give it 38.6 sq. ft. of waukee 1, Wis
bottom area to 31.9 for the No. 70, an 108/Circle on Res
Lowbow!l Scraper
For complete
information
check items at right
and mail coupon to:
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Brick & Clay Record
5 So. Wabash Ave.
Chicago 3, Ill.
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requests can be
quaranteed after
January 15, 1958 — offers —
INTEGRATED HEAT
SCREENING
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COMPANY
The Original Deister Co... Est 1906
NAME
COMPANY
913 GLASGOW AVE, FORT WAYNE, IND
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bustion Cm Cleveland 5, Ohio
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LOOKED AT FROM ANY ANGLE, MORE THAN YOUR MONEY'S WORTH
THE FAMOUS CHAMBERS SUSPENDED DESIGN
Air-Pressure Control
9' or 10' DRY PAN, No. 70 RIM DISCHARGE GRINDER
GRINDING PRESSURE RANGE
with Chambers Air-Pressure Control
Air Pressure in Cylinder ‘ 75 lbs 100 lbs. 125 Ibs. 150 lbs
Total Crushing Pressure on Muller .... *11.900 Ibs. *14,000 lbs. *16.000 Ibs. *18,100 Ibs. *90
Write today for further information, without obligation.
SERVING YOUR INDUSTRY FOR 100 YEARS
CHAMBERS 1957
52nd & Media Streets - PHILADELPHIA 31, PA.
DECEMBER, 1957 Please say “I saw It in B&CR”
NEW R/M Poly-V’ Drive
Solves Seven Major Power Transmission Problems !
Heavy duty drive problems can be accepted as necessary
and costly features of power driven equipment — or they
can be overcome! The difference is Poly-V* Drive...
R/M’s patented new concept in heavy duty power
transmission. Here’s how R/M Poly-V Drive helps
eliminate seven major problems common to most con-
ventional V-belt drive applications.
BELT MATCHING—Poly-V employs a single unit, V-
ribbed endless belt running on specially designed
sheaves—not a series of V-belts which vary in
length. Belt length matching problems are com-
pletely eliminated!
SPEED RATIOS—Full contact between belt ribs and
sheave grooves prevents belt ‘‘sinking’’ and uneven
speeds... maintains constant speed ratios and
effective pitch diameter from no load to full load!
SPACE REQUIREMENTS—Greater horsepower capacity
per inch of sheave width with Poly-V delivers up
to 50° more power in the same space as a multiple
V-belt drive ...or equal power in as little as
2¢ the space!
*Poly-V is a registered Raybestos-Manhatitan trademark
BELTS = HOSE + ROLL COVERINGS + TANK
DRIVE LIFE—Poly-V Drive has twice the contact area
with only Aalf the face pressure and that means
less wear, longer life for both belt and sheaves!
STOCK INVENTORIES — Just two cross sections of Poly-V
Belt meet every heavy duty power transmission
requirement, as compared to five in the case of
V-belts. With Poly-V you keep belt and sheave
inventories to an all time low!
HEAT PROBLEMS— Because thinner Poly-V Belts have
twice the ribbed area of V-belts exposed to the air,
you are assured cooler operation and less strain on
your equipment. And, of course, Poly-V Belt con-
struction is heat resistant, oil-proof and non-spark!
EQUIPMENT DOWNTIME—Stronger, cooler running,
longer lasting Poly-V Belt needs fewer tension ad-
justments after run-in... stays on the job longer
to reduce downtime costs for replacements, too!
If any—or al/l—of these features can help improve your
heavy duty power transmission drive performance and
dependability, you owe it to yourself to investigate R/M
Poly-V Drive. R/M engineers who developed it will be
glad to assist you in determining the Poly-V Drive in-
stallation that will best solve your problems... give
you “‘More Use per Dollar.”
RMT34
LININGS « INDUSTRIAL RUBBER SPECIALTIES
MANHATTAN RUBBER DIVISION—PASSAIC, NEW JERSEY
RAYBESTOS-MANHATTAN, INC.
Other R/M products: Abrasive and Diamond Wheels * Brake Blocks and Linings * Clutch Facings * Asbestos Textiles * Mechanical
Packings * Engineered Plastics * Sintered Metal Products * Industrial Adhesives * Laundry Pads and Covers * Bowling Balls
Piease say “I saw It in B&CR” BRICK & CLAY RECORD
Brick are stacked from kiln car to six
strapping stations. No rehandling. Each
cube somples contents of several kiln
cars for better brick blend. Stacking jigs
have side and bock walls for smooth-
sided cubes. Each operator works two
stacking jigs . lift truck removes one
cube while operator stacks and strops
the next cube. Fork lift trucks approach
from outside, left and right move
cubes directly to yard or truck.
Signode Helps Kelsey-Ferguson Save
$100,000 a Year with New Packaging System
Kelsey-Ferguson is one of the pioneers in the large-
scale packaging of brick. All of their 100,000 daily
output of brick has been packaged for some time. But
an all-new packaging system is saving over $100,000
per year, and producing better brick packs!
The new system, worked out by a Signode field
engineer and Kelsey-Ferguson personnel, incorpo-
rates the latest improvements in Signode tools and
methods. Noteworthy is the fact that $26,000 of the
yearly savings come from reductions in the cost of
strapping and associated unitizing materials alone.
The balance of the savings is in cost of labor.
Heart of the new System is direct stacking from
tunnel kiln to the strapping stations, eliminating all
rehandling and restacking. This is described in the
picture caption.
Use of Signode’s fast air-powered strapping tools
makes strapping much faster, much easier, and pro-
duces correct strap tension every time.
Isn't it time to take a new look at your methods of
packaging? A Signode sales representative will be
glad to help you do so, and to show you what's new
from Signode.
Call him today, or write:
SIGNODE STEEL STRAPPING CO.
2629 Western Avenue, Chicago 47, Illinois
Offices Coast to Coast. Foreign Subsidiaries and Distributors World-Wide.
In Canada: Canadian Steel Strapping Co., Ltd., Montreal * Toronto
DECEMBER, 1957 Please say “I saw It in B&CR”
CAR
TOPS
cut replacement cost
by as much as 50%!
It's a fact nine out of ten users of
PACO CAR TOPS are satisfied customers
and all report replacement sav ngs up to
50%! For the utmost in service, you require
a good first quality car top, highly resistant
to spalling, and a good hot load test
and you get just that when you standardize
on PACO
You and your plant can enjoy these
creased savings simply by placing a tria
order eM (GOR -lilell) | ane Malet s-
as your telephone or write us direct for
complete info
Manufactured by
NORTH STATE
PYROPHYLLITE Co., INC.
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Telephone BR 4-7055
OTHER PACO PRODUCTS INCLUDE: * PACO PLASTIC * PACOCAST * PACO H.T. CEMENTS
* PACO FIRE BRICK MORTAR * PACO SIDE CAR BRICK * PACO FIRE BRICK
* PACO LADLE LINING * PACO HEATZONE COMPOUND
Please say “I saw It in B&CR” BRICK & CLAY RECORD
Eaaraeeaeaewe / AE tk
ae Vs OC
At YANKEE HILL BRICK CO.
Lincoln, Nebraska
¢ EVENNESS OF BURN
¢ STRAIGHTNESS OF LOAD
« PERFECT OXIDATION
with their
TUNNEL
Yankee Hill Brick Company's Dressler
Kiln delivers uniform firing performance of
highest quality—a vital factor in the me-
chanical handling of the fired product in
this operation. Loads are transferred by
mechanical forks from dryer cars to kiln
cars. Fork trucks remove 50% of burned
load in one operation, and stack two units
high (32 courses) in yard—requiring con-
trolled, uniform shrinkage through the
Kiln. The Kiln is 263’ long, and is pro-
vided with a 6-car preheater. Kiln capacity
is 40,000 brick per day; loads are 2,000
brick per car.
*Coneult us on ww’ | SWINDELL-DRESSLER Corporation.
requirements DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS OF MODERN INDUSTRIAL FURNACES
PITTSBURGH 30, PA.
What's the best all-around tractor for
mining applications ?
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“Tournatractor can push-load two scrapers in
the same time a crawler pushes one,” says
Supt. Jim Vaughn, of B&B Construction Co.
Stripping overburden for M & M Clays, Inc.'s
kaolin pit, rubber-tired tractors helped C
Tournapulls load in just 48 seconds,
Ax A. S. Boone — whose B & B
Construction Co. does a lot of con-
tract stripping, mining, and hauling
for clay operations in the “kaolin
country” around Irwinton, Georgia.
He'll give you strong arguments in
favor of rubber-tired LeTourneau-
Westinghouse Tournatractor®.
High crawler upkeep prompted
switch to Tournatractor
B & B once used only crawler trac-
tors. But when the firm’s books
showed that repair bills on 5 crawl-
ers in 1 year totaled $30,000, Boone
recalls, “It was time to look for trac-
tors that would operate in sand, clay
and water without high repair costs.”
Two Model D Tournapull® scrapers
B & B owned had cost only $450 in
repairs for over 5000 hours of work.
Because Boone and his men figured
rock-bottom maintenance costs
should run “in the family”, they
bought 2 new Tournatractors. Here’s
what’s happened:
LETOURNEAU-WESTINGHOUSE COMPANY,
A Subsidiary of Westinghouse Air Brake Company
Wide, low-pressure tires gave good traction
and flotation in wide variety of materials en-
countered on project. Other Tournapull fea-
tures that helped speed production included
29.9 mph travel speed, exceptional manevuver-
ability, instant-acting electric power system.
DOWNTIME: Tournatractor down-
time has been only 10 days, com-
pared to 30 per year per crawler.
LUBE TIME: B & B’s work records
show Tournatractor can be lubed in
5 minutes .. . far less than a crawler.
REPAIR COST: When the firm bought
its 2 Tournatractors, it also pur-
chased 4 C Tournapulls and a new
crawler. The maintenance cost of
all 6 L-W machines has been ap-
proximately $4500, that of the one
crawler approximately $2200.
“Does work of 2 or 3 crawlers”
Has replacing 4 crawlers with only
2 rubber-tired tractors affected pro-
duction? “Yes,” says Boone, “we get
a lot more done! Tournatractor does
the work of 2 or 3 crawlers.” Fora
sample of the kind of production
B & B’s getting nowadays, check
the accompanying work report.
Tip: Why not take a close look at
your crawler maintenance costs...
then look at Tournatractor. Ask us
for full details.
Where quality is a habit
B & B’s rubber-tired fleet
strips 8,000 yds. a day
One of B & B's recent contracts in-
volved stripping overburden at M&M
Clays, Inc.'s kaolin pit at Mcintyre,
Ga. From top surface to kaolin, the
36’ deep overburden included layers
of clay-and-sand, pure sand, water-
and-sand, and — just above the kao-
lin—a 3’ layer of sticky gumbo.
L-W Tournapulls, with Tournatractors
pushing, kept production steady
throughout the wide range of ma-
terials ... clicked off 2290’ cycles
in an average of just 3.9 minutes.
C Tournapulls, with 18-yd. Fullpok*
scrapers, pushed by husky Tourna-
tractors, loaded in a hurry. Average
load time was only 48 seconds; dis-
tance was 90’; and payloads aver-
aged 11 to 12 yards of the heavy
materials. When B & B used its full
fleet of 4 C ‘Pulls* and 2 Tourna-
tractors, daily production averaged
a big 8,000 cu. yds.
*Trademark CTCP-1573-MQJ-1
PEORIA, ILLINOIS
from A
to U ...and probably
YOU
if you engage in heat processing in the CLAY
PRODUCTS and CERAMICS FIELD you'll
desire a copy of the LANLY Bulletin No. 572.
Its interesting and informative contents were planned
to enable our many friends to better their
respective competitive positions in an increasingly
active field.
This is often feasible with the acquisition of LANLY
designed and installed heat processing equipment.
New
Bulletin
572
Covering
Refractory,
Sanitary Ware,
& Vari-Purpose
Dryers is yours
for the asking
Name
THE co.
Street
LAN LY Serves Manufacturers
THE LANLY CO.
CERAMIC OVENS & DRYERS
765 Prospect Ave. + Cleveland, Ohio
CO
American Lava Corp.
Amer. Rad. & Std. Sanitary Corp.
American-Standard Prod., Ltd.
American Vitrified Prod. Co.
Atlantic Tile Mfg. Co.
Babcock & Wilcox Co.
Carborundum Co.
Celotex Corp.
Clay City Pipe Co.
Corundite Refractories, Inc.
Crane Co., Ltd.
Dickey, W. S. Clay Co.
Eljer Company
Evons Pipe Co., The
Frontenac Fi. & Wall Tile, Ltd.
General Tile Corp.
Gladding, Mc-Bean & Co.
Graff-Kittanning Clay Prod. Co.
Harbison-Walker Refract. Co.
Ingersoll-Humphryes Co.
Jordan Tile Co.
Kohler Co.
Larson Clay Pipe Co.
Logan Clay Products Co.
Massillon Refractories Co., The
Mosaic Tile Co.
Natco Corp.
National Plumbing Pottery Co.
New Castle Refractories Co.
North Amer. Refract. Co.
Oconee Clay Products Co.
Patterson Foundry & Mach. Co.
Pomona Terra-Cotta Co.
Pope-Gosser China Co.
Robinson Clay Products Co.
Simonds Worden White Co.
Stillwater Clay Products Co.
Streator Drain Tile Co.
Tillotson Refractories Co.
U. S. Quarry Tile Co.
Universal Potteries, Inc.
Utah Fire Clay Co.
>
Heat Processing Engineers for the
Ceramic Industry
CERAMIC OVENS & DRYERS City
State —
765 Prospect Ave. « Cleveland, Ohio
1957
DECEMBER,
Please say “I saw It in B&CR”
Tough hauling problem? Take a look at
If heavy loads, rough
roads and steep grades, with little
or no turn-space, are part of your
hauling problems, then you'll find
some answers in Koehring Dump-
tor. Come along on a typical load-
haul-and-dump cycle:
There's no slow jockeying back
and forth at the loader. Dumptor
spots into position fast — is loaded
over the sides, or over either end.
Wide-flared 6-yard body, with low
height, provides a big square target
— 64 square feet, to be exact, This
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reduces spillage, steps up output of
shovel, dragline, clamshell, or trac-
tor type loader — adds extra trips to
daily production.
On the haul, Dumptor accelerates
fast, pulls through soft ground with
less shifting — climbs 24% ramps
or grades fully loaded. It has better
than 6 H.P. of “go” for every ton
of loaded weight. Narrow haul
roads, ledges, tunnels, overhead
ramps and trestles are no problem,
There is no need to turn, because
Dumptor operates with equal ease
Please say “] saw It in B&CR”
and speed in either direction. It
gets this unique mo-turn shuttle-
haul advantage through a constant-
mesh transmission that gives the
same, fast, 3-speed travel forward
and backward. Every turn saved cuts
15 seconds off cycle-time.
At the dump area (above), gravity
tilts the body, dumps the load in
ome second. No 15 to 25-second
wait for slow-acting mechanical
body-hoist — no hoist maintenance.
Gravity-dump never balks — never
wears out. Heavy-duty Dumptor
BRICK & CLAY RECORD
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Dumptor....
also has a ton of strength for every
ton of payload capacity. Sides, ends
of body are rib-reinforced. Double-
plate bottom is lined with multiple
steel beams. Check its other advan-
tages at right — then ask Koehring
distributor to demonstrate what
Dumptor can do on your heavy,
off-road hauling. Call him today.
4 J} DIVISION OF KOEHRING COMPANY
as SY MILWAUKEE 16, WISCONSIN x7 ¢¢
DECEMBER, 1957
HEAVY-DUTY CHASSIS SPRING
Dumptor has just one chassis spring
— a@ heavy snubber-type, mounted
between main frame and steering
axle. No leaf springs. Big shock-ab-
sorbing drive tires eliminate springs
and spring maintenance on drive axle.
OFF-SET PIVOT ON i
Pivot point on steering axle is offset
from center line 314" toward oper-
ator side of Dumptor. There's no sag,
even with unbalanced loads. Steering
axle oscillates up to 21”, helps keep
twisting strains ovt of main frame.
BOLTED OR FREE-SWINGING PAN
Heavy steel kick-out pan is 2" thick.
Pan can be bolted to body floor for
extra protection when loading rock.
Remove bolts, and pan has swinging
kick-out action ... breaks load suction
when dumping wet or sticky materials.
HYDRAULIC POWER-STEER
Power steering adds to Dumptor ma-
neuverability for fast spotting, lets
driver handle off-road travel with
ease. Dumptor has a short turning
radius of only 19’-3", far less than
other haulers of comparable capacity.
Please say “I saw It in B&CR”
TIRES TRACK IN DIRECT LINE
Wide, heavy steering axle puts Dump-
tor steer wheels in line with drive
wheels. Tires track in the same path.
There’s less rolling resistance, bet-
ter traction in soft ground, on loose
stockpiles and over rough haul roads.
STREAMLINED ALL-STEEL BODY
There are no bulges or ledges inside
the body. Top edge is box beam con-
struction. Sides and ends are ribbed
with 5 and 8-inch channels. Bottom is
lined with multiple steel beams. Stur-
dy ridge bar joins rock guard teeth.
SIMPLE BODY LATCH
Body latch for 1-second gravity dump
is simple and trouble-free. Latch is
engaged by a single hook mounted on
the chassis frame. Dump lever is lo-
cated inside cab in an easy-to-reach
position for quick effortless dumping.
EASY-REACH CONTROLS:
(1) speed gear shift, (2) directional
geor shift, (3) starting aid, (4) feet
throttle, (5) clutch pedal, (6) brake
pedal, (7) parking brake, (8) body
release lever, (9) hand throttle, (10)
light control switch, (11) Controlator.
27
“‘We are well satisfied with our $-D Kiln Car Wheels”’
.. « says Plant Engineer Philip D. Pearce, Boren Clay Products Co.
Boren Clay Products has had the
S-D “Floater’’ Wheels in service
for over a year at their Pleasant
Garden, N. C. plant . . . another
of scores of brick plants all over
the nation recognizing the smooth
running, low maintenance values
of S-D ‘Floater’’ Kiln Car Wheels.
You, too, can eliminate conven-
tional kiln car wheels and their
costly everyday maintenance and
lubrication by installing S-D ‘‘Float-
ers’’ on your present cars.
These S-D “Floaters” run free and
easy; seldom require lubrication.
Mr. Pearce reports: ‘We are on a
90-day lubrication cycle and it
might be too often but it keeps us
on the safe side.’ The outer hub
on S-D ‘Floater’ Wheels is com-
pletely closed. Inner hub is pro-
tected by two metal grease seals
—effectively eliminating dust while
retaining special high temperature
lubricant.
Let us quote you on wheels for your
present cars. Write today. San-
ford-Day Iron Works, Inc., Knox-
ville, Tenn.
Mr. Pearce is shown above in his Boren Clay Products
kiln with S-D ‘Floater’ Wheel equipped car. S-D
Floater’ is shown at left demounted, illustrating how
bearings remain in permanent adjustment. Wheels and
bearings can be provided for various load requirements.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Send us photostatic copy or blueprint of your present cars. With
this information, we can quote you on replacement wheels. Save
maintenance with free and easy running S-D ‘‘Floaters’’!
28 ‘lease say “I saw It in B&CR” BRICK & CLAY RECORD
DECEMBER, 1957
Get Clear-Span Design, Rugged Construction
with NEW STRAN-STEEL BUILDINGS
When you need a long, clear-span building
that has sturdy construction yet is flexible
enough to be tailored to your needs, you
need an all-steel building from Stran-
Steel’s new building line.
The long, column-free spans of the new
buildings make them ideal for continuous
kiln operation. Stran-Steel buildings with
unobstructed floor space can accommo-
date kilns and dryers, complete with ex-
haust ducts, plus plenty of room for kiln
cars, lift trucks and transfer cars.
Stran-Steel buildings are rugged. At the
peak and knee, the continuously welded
rigid frame I-section steel plate beams are
securely bolted together. Each frame is
also permanently bolted to the foun-
Dept. 25-17
STRAN-STEEL CORPORATION
Detroit 29, Michigan + Division of
NATIONAL STEEL ' CORPORATION
Here's where to get more information:
Atienta 3, Ga., 206 Volunteer Bidg.; Chicago 6, Ml., 205 W
Wocker Dr.; Cleveland 16, Ohio, 20950 Center Ridge Rd
Detroit 29, Mich., Tecumseh Rd; Houston 5, Texas, 2444
Times Bivd.; Kenses City, Mo., 6 East | Ith St.; Minneapolis 4,
Minn., 708 S. 10th St.; New York 17, N.Y., 405 Lexington
Ave.; Sen Francisco 3, Coal., 1707 Central Tower Bidg.;
Washington 6, D. C., 1025 Connecticut Ave., N.W.
dation. Clear-span structures are avail-
able in widths of 40, 50, 60, 70 and 80 ft.
and multiples thereof.
You get the cost-saving features of a pre-
engineered structure in a quality building
which is durable and fire-safe. Exterior is
finished with exclusive Stran-Satin metal
wall which provides a strong, durable
panel with the weather resistance of zinc-
coated steel and the smooth, spangle-free
appearance of expensive materials. Peaks,
gables and eaves are completely enclosed.
Up to $25,000 is available to finance these
buildings through the Stran-Steel Purchase
Plan. As little as 25% initial investment; up
to 5 years to pay. Ask your Stran-Steel dealer
for the complete story.
Detroit 29, Michigan, Dept. 25-17
Please have your representative contact me
Name Title
Company
Street
City
Please say “I saw It in B&CR”
Please send me your new Industrial Buildings Catalog.
Wear on all equipment is tremendously reducea
\l “w by Stoody Hard-Facing Alloys when properly
The selected and applied. Best techniques for gaining
extra wear protection on important tractor
parts, for example, are illustrated below with
of maintaining recommended hard-facing materials. Other
applications are shown in the Stoody Guidebook.
Brick and Clay equipment Stoody Company supplies hard-facing alloys
for all accepted methods of application, each with
specific advantages. Those of primary interest
to brick and clay plants are:
STOODY MANUAL ELECTRODES — Available in a complete
range of alloys and sizes. Meet all wear requirements from
extreme abrasion to heavy impact. Excellent for position
welding. Most effective where surface area is small, parts
are moderately sized or cannot be readily positioned.
STOODY SEMI-AUTOMATIC HARD FACING WIRES— Sup-
plied in layer wound coils for application through semi-
automatic welders. Designed to bridge the gap between
manual and fully automatic hard-facing materials, sup-
DOZER END BITS
Semi-Automatic —STOODY 100 or STOODY 130
Manual —COATED TUBE STOODITE or TUBE BORIUM
/ 0 TOP CARRIER
ROLLS
Manual—STOODY 1027
TRACK ROLLERS
Manual—STOODY BUILD-UP and STOODY 1027
Semi-Automatic —STOODY 104 and STOODY 108
Automatic —STOODY 104 and STOODY 105
plying the speed of the automatic process with the flex-
ibility of manual application. Jobs can be completed in
1% to %4 the time of manual welding. Available in a com-
plete range of alloys similar in deposits to manual elec-
trodes. Wires are bare, permit full visibility during welding.
No fluxes required. Recommended primarily for down-
hand welding on large areas.
STOODY FULLY AUTOMATIC HARD FACING WIRES— Sup-
plied in continuous layer wound coils; available in a variety
of alloys covering all common wear problems. Applied by
submerged arc in most cases. Recommended for wear
properties, high rate of application and smooth, uniform
deposits. Generally used for hard-facing large cylindrical
parts which can be rotated on the positioning equipment
during welding.
For more information on specific Stoody Alloys and best
application procedures ask your Stoody Dealer (check the
phone book Yellow Pages), or write direct.
IDLERS
Manual —STOODY BUILD-UP and STOODY 1027
Semi-Automatic —STOODY 104 and STOODY 108 STOODY COMPANY
Automatic —STOODY 104 and STOODY 105 11950 East Slauson Avenue * Whittier, California
Please say “I saw It in B&CR” BRICK & CLAY RECORD
December 1957 Vol. 13
5 SOUTH WABASH AVE.
CHICAGO 3, ILL.
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_— Established 1892,
(> now in 66th year. Mea
Herold H. Rosenberg, Editor and Chair-
man of the Board.
*Fred L. Steinhoff, Publisher
*J. J. Svec, Assistant Publisher
Jock B. Anderson, Associate Editor
Elmer Spain, Technical Editor
M. J. Skodon, Mgr., Publication Printing
Lynn H. Campbell, Research & Merchan-
dising Mgr.
Walter W. Koch, Art Director
R. H. Lash, Exec. Dir. of Circulation
H. G. Leve, Circulation Director
*Edweord Dietterie, 3834 Monteith Dr., Los
Angeles 43, Calif. West Coast Editoria/
Representative
Advertising Sales Representatives
Please address all correspondence regarding
copy, instruction and cuts to:
Chicago Office: 5 S. Wabash Ave., Chi-
cago 3, Ill. FRanklin 2-6880
John H. Van Deventer, Vice President,
Gen'l Sales Mgr.
Floyd M. Bardick, Business Manager
Roy Barron, Asst. Business Manager
S. J. Hoganson, Promotion Director
New York: Albert S. Robinson, Vice Presi-
dent, 420 Lexington Ave., Room 846,
NYC 17. Phone: Murray Hill 3-2877
East Central: Richard F. Burkhart, Room
2138, The B. F. Keith Building, 162!
Euclid Avenue, Cleveland 15, Ohio. Phone:
PRospect 1-1312, 1-1313, 1-1314
Southern: John M. Printup, 12! S. E.
First St., Miami, Fla., Phones Franklin 9-2668
California: Wentworth Green Com-
pany, 439 S. Western Ave., Los Angeles
5, Phone Dunkirk 7-8135; (A. S. Beb-
cock) 605 Market St., San Francisco 5,
Phone YUkon 2-3954
Pacific Northwest: Frank J. McHugh,
Jr., 520 S.W. 6th Ave., Portland 4, Ore-
gon. Phone CApitel 6-256!
*Ceramic Engineering Staff.
Formal acceptence made only at
DEADLINES. Advertising material
proofs must be
h of the Jag opt month; Fine! Space
eee by the of preceding month,
complete plates LF by of month pre-
vious.
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One year: $10.00 for oa Years. Single Copies
7s —~y Ay | ates
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year: three years, $15.00
ublished monthly and i by
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Presi-
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deat: FL. Steinhoft Exec
wrer; C. R. Lacey, Scie,
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neering index, Inc.
Attend The Sales Meetings
On the basis of the preview given at the Greenbrier meeting, the
SCPI sales meetings for 1958 will really be a honey. Al Walsh and
his crew have developed a fast moving, interesting and highly
professional program that should give ammunition and enthusiasm
to anybody selling brick or tile
The basic idea behind this traveling sales refresher course is a
splendid one that our industry can be proud of. If these meetings
ore properly attended, they should give the brick and tile industry
a real push toward getting 1958 sales off to a flying start.
Unfortunately, there’s one big flaw in all of this . . . weak attend-
ance. Last year’s attendance ranged from fairly good to poor in
various cities. It was so scant in some areas that Walsh‘s crew almost
outnumbered the audience. Frankly, we feel it is fortunate that SCPI
will conduct the tour again.
The attendance at any one of the meetings should be ten to 100
times what it was last year.
For instance, in Chicago last year about 40 salesmen and execu-
tives attended. This same area has some 15 plants with each plant
having many dealers. If our estimates are right, attendance should
be over 400.
Pre-Selling ls Needed
Pre-selling is more important now than ever. The product must be
sold long before the actual specifications are drawn up and long
before the material is ordered. The builder, when he thinks of mate-
rial, should think only of clay products.
When Al Waish and his group comes to your area, they'll be
covering all aspects of today’s salesmanship: merchandising, prod-
uct knowledge, sales training and techniques, marketing, pre-selling,
promotion and others.
These sales clinics are aimed at the manufacturers who want to
use every possible means of getting more sales .. . at the men
who want to keep ahead of their competition from other industries.
It's the sales people we're worried about. We feel that each
manufacturer should make a special effort to get his own organi-
zation to these meetings and, if necessary, pay the way for his
dealers to attend.
Our industry won't have maximum sales-health until there’s stand-
ing-room-only at these sales meetings.
For ways to help get better attendance at these meetings, see
page 57.
The Editors
YOUR ASSURANCE AGAINST COSTLY
REPAIRS AND SHUTDOWNS
VALENTINE XX semi-silica firebrick have
given outstanding service in both tunnel
and periodic kilns — using all types of fuel
and burning a variety of ware.
The many advantages of this unusual
brick are universally recognized through-
out the Ceramic Industry. The tunnel kiln
illustrated is lined throughout with VAL-
ENTINE XX. It operated 13 years-8 months
without a single shutdown for repairs.
This kiln is typical of numerous installa-
tions in which VALENTINE XX has proved its superiority. The baffle walls AP Green
between burners, completely surrounded by intense heat, showed no REFRACTORY
shrinkage or deformation under load. The unique property of VALENTINE PRODUCTS
XX to form a refractory glaze on the surface has protected the crown .<™
...M© joint erosion or settling over many years of service. Cov 18 WORLD era
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EXPERIENCED DISTRIBUTORS—QUALITY REFRACTORIES AND WORKMANSHIP a. @. GIREEIN
FIRE BRICK COMPANY
An authorized A. P. Green distributor, trained in refractory problems,
is close to your job to give you the kind of quality workmanship your
refractory job demands. He has complete stock of VALENTINE XX firebrick
and other high quality A. P. Green Refractories ... and he is backed by the
engineering staff of the A. P. Green Fire Brick Company. VALENTINE XX is
manufactured at our Woodbridge Division at Woodbridge, New Jersey.
Please say “I saw It in B&CR” BRICK & CLAY RECORD
NEWS orf THE INDUSTRY
Massillon Expansion
Program Completed
Massillon Refractories Co. has just
completed an expansion program that
adds about 18,000 sq. ft. of floor space
to their plant near East Greenville
Ohio
three new additions, the
as a building to house a
new tunnel kiln with a weekly pro-
duction of 75,000 standard fire brick
equivalents The new kiln will be
primarily for refractory special-
ties. This kiln is in addition to an-
other tunnel kiln installed in 1945
shutdo
maintenance, cleaning and minor
The new kiln is an Allied,
with dual gas-oil br
New also at the plant is
dryer with a capacity of 30.000
Amvit Announces Line
of Glass Lined Pipe
Vitrified clay pipe with a new glass
is beer developed by A meri-
d Products Co., Cleveland.
it by E
rding to an announcemer!
Miller, president
Amvit Glas-Glaz i h name
e new product, which 1 ntended
Soy
Oo
use as sewt
commercial, if
f salt glaze, Glas-Glaz
with a “glass-like cera
The formula was designed
strength and smoothness to the
The pipe is available in k
feet or ver. Present |
ed on 4”, 6”
diamete! pipe lr additior
tion 1s concentrat
} ‘ ]
giass lining the pipe also
Amvit joint
Pacific Clay Expects
Record Sales, Earnings
Sales and earnings of Pacific Clay
Products are expected to set a new
record for the year of 1957, according
to John D. Fredericks, president of
the Los Angeles firm.
Fredericks, in a talk before Cali-
fornia Stock Exchange men, estimat-
ed that earnings for the year ending
Dec. 31 would reach $2.60 or perhaps
as high as $3 a share on common
stock.
He also predicted that sales for the
current year will be $9 million as
compared with $8.1 million last year.
Part of this increase Fredericks at-
tributed to depletion refunds and al-
lowances. The company expects to
get refunds of $750,000 for the years
1951-1956
DECEMBER, 1957
Fredericks pointed out that b Acme Brick Buys
tween 1951 and 1956, sales asec Two Firms
39 while earnings almost d Acme Brick Co. exercised its
The sharp rise in profits wi: lu tion to purchase Tri-State Brick
eliminatior f unprofitable j ‘ile fg. Co., Waskom, Tex., and
cts and facilities, increased efficiency ‘ é rick & Til » Tr
from new machinery and facilities, and undria. Ls nO
stringent cost controls, Frede1 Pur hase
noted $100,000
, cks anticipate
demand for
state
He
calls Mins WRI alkalines Seni Regina Plant Produces
cig age geo a so First Load of Pipe
Fredericks
‘
t
ou
since Pacific Clay will :
year’s earnings from he fi — *
acquired Cor
Camanche
Government Predicts
5° Rise in Construction
Experts of the Commerce
bod De pt have forecast a 5
spending on n ! rt o
This evidently ould mean a ri LW Plant Planned
physical volu ince the er For El Dorado
about 3
In 1957, the experts expect
dollar volume but a slight
physical volume when year-e!
ires are All lf
Next year’s gain is based on 1,045,-
000 private housil
ing trend in public utilities and publi
works construction, offsetting an ex-
g@ Starts and a ris
pected § lt n industrial construc-
tior
The Roanoke-Webster brick plant, near Somerset, Va., is nearly complete, as can 5e
seen above. The building at right is housing the tunnel kiln; at lower left is the building
with crushers; building at center holds the brick machine. Initial operation will be
500,000 weekly but capacity is 2 million weekly. Totcl floor area is 110,000 sq. ft.
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NEWS orf tHe Inpustry
Ken Dunwody Elected
SCPI President at Meet
Kenneth W Dunwody,
brick manufacturer, was elected 1957
58 President of the Structural Clay
Products Institute, national associa
tion of brick and structural tile manu-
facturers at the Institute’s
conventi Dunwody is President of
the Cherokee Bric k and T le Co , Ma
Ceorgia
recent
con, Georgia
Dunwody
The new SCPI Vice President is
Paul B. Belden, Jr., President of The
Belden Brick Co., Canton, Ohio
George Gammie, Vice President and
Sales Manager of the Illinois Brick
ected SCPI Treasure:
Joseph J. Cermak of the Washing-
ton, D.C. SCPI staff, was re-elected
Secretary
Chairman of the Board and General
Counsel! of SCPI is Douglas Whitlock,
Washington, D.C.
4 new 38-member 1957-58 Board
of Directors, representing all geo-
graphic areas of the country, was
elected at the convention. They are:
ARIZONA: William F.
Grabe Brick Co., Tucson.
CALIFORNIA: A. E. Barnes, Glad-
ding McBean & Co., San Francisco;
John C. Boggs, California Clay Prod-
icts, Stockton; Norman J. Geizert,
San Jose Brick & Tile Ltd., Oakland;
and W.C. Reordan, Los Angeles Brick
& Clay Products Co., Los Angeles.
COLORADO: William J. Ged-
des, Denver Brick & Pipe Co., Denver
F. George Robinson, Robinson Brick
& Tile Co., Denver; and Ralph J
Welte, Summit Pressed Brick & Tile
( . Pueblo.
CONNECTICUT: D. B. Andrews,
lL. I Stiles & Sen Brick Co., North
Haven
Grabe,
GEORGIA: Kenneth W. Dunwody,
Cherokee Brick & Tile Co., Macon
ILLINOIS: I. R. Cline, Western
Brick Co., Danville: and George Gam-
mie Illinois Brick Co., Chicago.
IOWA: A. C. Frisk, Mason City
Brick & Tile Co., Mason City; and
O. J. Whittemore, Vincent Clay Prod-
icts Co., Fort Dodge.
KANSAS: Robert A. Finney, Hum-
boldt Brick & Tile Co., Humboldt
Whitlock Receives AYA Vocational Award
Douglas Whitlock, board chairman of SCPI, received the American Vocational Assoc.
Award of Merit from AVA executive secretary Lowell Burkett at the Greenbrier SCPI
meeting on Nov. 12. Burkett paid tribute to the direction by Whitlock of SCPI's masonry
apprentice training program. Burkett, in the award speech, described the history of
the training program; SCPI efforts to create a library of training material; and related
men in the country to receive such an
training work. Whitlock was one of four
award this year
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KENTUCKY: Clarence M. Herpel,
Southern Brick & Tile Co., Louisville.
MARYLAND: Joseph A. Brown,
Baltimore Brick Co., Baltimore; and
G. Victor Cushwa, Victor Cushwa &
Sons, Inc., Williamsport.
MISSOURI: L. S. Meyer, Hydrau-
lic Press Brick Co., St. Louis.
NEW YORK: Henry Abreu, Jova
Brick Works, Roseton; Francis M.
Gaynor, Nassau Brick Co., Farming-
dale, Long Island; and Karl Mathia-
sen, Federal Seaboard Terra Cotta
Corp., New York.
NORTH CAROLINA: John H
Isenhour, Isenhour Brick & Tile Co.,
Salisbury.
OHIO: Paul B. Belden, Jr., The
Belden Brick Co., Canton; D. J. Ren
kert, Metropolitan Brick, Inc., Can-
ton; C. M. Shafer, Stone Creek Brick
Co., Stone Creek; John H. Stewart,
Stark Ceramics, Inec., Canton: and
Phillip W. Tefft, The Claycraft Co.,
Columbus.
PENNSYLVANIA: Charles E. Al-
wine, Alwine Brick Co., New Oxford:
Hugh L. Campbell, Jr., Hazelton
Brick Co., Hazelton; Russel Eshenaur,
Glen-Gery Shale Brick Corp., Read-
ing; and Roy A. Shipley, Natco Corp.,
Pittsburgh.
TENNESSEE: Glen Bruce, Gen-
eral Shale Products Corp., Johnson
City.
TEXAS: T. J. Butler, Elgin Butler
Brick Co., Austin, Texas; J. E. Fen-
der, Acme Brick Co., Fort Worth
and George H. Harmon, Reliance Clay
Products Co., Dallas.
WASHINGTON: Alex Corbett,
Granger Clay Products Co., Yakima.
—WEST VIRGINIA: R. H. Saun-
ders, Charleston Clay Products Co.,
Charleston.
Gladding, McBean Looking
For Clay Near Spokane
Gladding, McBean & Co. is conduct-
ing an extensive exploration program
in the Spokane, Wash. area to find
new clays for its brick-making opera-
tions.
The firm is core-drilling on its 1,900
acreas of clay bearing land, mostly
near Mica, Deer Park and Clayton.
The company is also looking for other
lands, according to E. H. Whitney,
general superintendent.
Whitney said the Gladding, McBean
new $2 million Mica plant was to be
in partial operation in early Novem-
ber with tunnel kiln operation. Dry
press operations, however, won’t be-
gin till near the end of the year.
The firm has closed the plants at
Dishman and Clayton, the report said.
Whitney plans eventually to re-open
the glazed tile plant at Dishman but
wouldn’t say when. Whether the Clay-
ton plant will reopen will evidently
depend on the market conditions.
BRICK & CLAY RECORD
Million-Plus Starts
in "58 Forecast
The total of new homes to be con-
structed in 1958 will exceed the anti-
cipated million housing starts this
year, according to a prediction by Roy
M. Marr, president of the U. S. Sav-
ings and Loan League, in a speech in
Chicago recently.
Marr based his housing starts pre-
diction on signs of an easing in home
credit and a pickup in the rate of
new family formations. He also re-
garded few indications of overbuild-
ing of single family homes as an-
other factor.
Boldrick of Acme
Wins Modular Award
The American Standards Associa-
tion board of directors has voted the
1956 ASA Modular Award to Neill
Boldrick, vice president of Acme Brick
Co., Fort Worth, Tex.
G. F. Hussey Jr.. ASA managing
director, said, “This is a tribute to
your leadership and a profound ex-
pression of the esteem held for you
by your colleagues. On behalf of the
board of directors and the ASA staff,
I extend my congratulations.”
The award was to be presented to
Boldrick at the ASA Awards Dinner
n San Francisco
The full title of the ward, with
winners chosen by an ASA jury, was
the ASA Modular Award for Produc-
tion of Modular Products
Net Earnings Up
At A. P. Green
Net earnings of the company and
subsidiary companies were $2.46 mil-
ion in the first nine months of this
year, according to A. P. Green Firé
Brick Co. Last years earnings for
the same period were $2.32 million.
Net sales during the same period
amounted to $32.4 million compared
to last year’s $26.2 President
W. S. Lowe pointed out that the in-
creased total sales included figures
million.
from four subsidiaries acquired since
July, 1956.
Lowe also pointed out that earnings
during the year were “adversely af-
fected by non-recurring starting up
costs” in three plants.
Lowe reported a decline in the de-
mand for refractories that exists and
seems to be part of the general pic-
ture
97.8% of North Carolinians
Want Brick in House
“There is no question but that
North Carolinians have an overwhelm
ing preference for brick homes” econ-
Nathaniel Rogge says after
preference survey in
omist
conducting a
that state.
Rogge, who directs market analy-
sis and statistical work for NAHB,
DECEMBER, 1957
reported that the survey showed 3,015
people wanted a brick home out of
the 3082 surveyed. In percentages,
97.8% preferred brick in homes.
In commenting on the survey, H.
B. Foster of the state’s Brick & Tile
Service, said that he felt homebuyers
elsewhere probably want brick just
as much but are held back by cost.
Foster gave as reasons for the
state’s preference the ready availabil-
ity of brick and the resultant cost ad-
vantage of the state’s heavy brick
production
Foster declined to state which
reason for the preference was given
most often.
Net Income Down
at Illinois Brick
Net income for the first 39 weeks
of 1957 was $402,681 or $1.97 a share,
according to a report from John Good
ridge, president of Illinois Brick Co.,
Chicago.
These figures compare to 1956's
$552,656 and $2.70.
Sales for the period in 1957 were
$4.26 million, compared with the 1956
figure of $4.8 million, a decrease of
11 The decline in earnings reflects
higher
well as lower production,
noted
wage and material costs as
Goodridge
North American Div.
At the regular meeting of the board
in November, the Directors of North
American Refractories Co., Cleveland,
declared a dividend of 50¢ per share
on common stock outstanding Dec
sc
31, payable Jan. 15
John P. Duffy Dies
John P. Duffy, 54, vice president
and general manager of Stillwater
Clay Products Co. and the Dennison
Sewer Pipe Co., died November 10 at
Uhrichsville, Ohio, of an intestinal
obstruction.
He had been ill for 10 days
Eakins Appointed SM
For Porter Refract. Div.
Alan R. Eakins has been appointed
general sales manager, and H. W
general
works manage of the Refractories
Div. of H. K. Porter Co., Pittsburgh
promoted from
Gethin namec assistant
issistant
Eakins,
saies manager, Was formerly with
General Refractories Gethin, with
14 years with Porter’s Laclede-Chris-
ty works, will ». G. Platt, gen-
in supervising
plants
The men in the picture above have a combined total of 309 years of service with
Ludowici-Celadon Co. of Chicago. T. C. Flower is shown receiving a watch from Col
C. L. McGee, president, for his long service of 52 years. In the photo, with years
service in parentheses, are from left: H. S. Pack (48); R. E. Snyder (48); H. P. Thomas
(38); G. E. Hajek (38); R. E. Ryan (51); McGee with 34 years and Flower, center
35
Another LEADER
in the Block Industry!
A F b
a v © fe Cina a a
| : , ‘ee Smee
7 m > ee r} f 7
nS lates “Gi:
¢
y
Soil
Horry J. Sceviour, President and
. ® ST. SOUTH OF 5
Amit TOs
James E. Campbell, Secretory-Treas-
vrer of Day & Campbell, Lid.
s the 141st of a series of ods featuring leaders in the Concrete Products industry
we stepping vp t k production with Besser Vibrapec mochines
--. progressive young men
make successful blockmakers
There’s money in the block business. James Campbell and Harry
Sceviour . . . operating under the name Day & Campbell, Ltd.,
Hamilton, Ontario . . . are proving it with good results. Through
good management and planned advertising, these two young
progressive Canadians have become unusually successful
blockmakers.
The firm started operations in 1947. In 1954, they installed
their first Besser Vibrapac, thereby stepping up the production
of high quality block. Last year, for example, they produced and
sold 2,800,000 units (8” or equivalent).
The Vibrapac is one of the heroes in this success story. Jim
Campbell states: “The versatility of the Besser Vibrapac en-
ables us to manufacture and promote economical use of special
units, such as bull nose, etc., to give our masonry jobs built-in
beauty.”
a. You too can become a successful blockmaker. And you’ll find
Day & Campbell trucks at the entrance of their Hamilton, Ontario block plant it easier with Besser Vibrapacs. Write today for literature.
’ .
4 B 50 ou. ft. Batch Mixer,
) a SEM S worthy companion to the BESSER compan |
Se. = , . gt Vibrapae, at the Day & Dept. 139, Alpena, Mich., U. $. A. First in Concrete Block Machines
,~ Campbell! plant
& Holy Trinity Church at Hamilton, On-
tario. Note exposed Vibrapac Block walls.
4 All units supplied by Day & Campbell, Ltd.
Besser Vibrapac, front pallet feed model, in-
stalled in Day & Campbell plant. Fully automatic.
No machine operator required. Off-bearer is
removing green block with the help of a Besser
Power Hoist. A?-141
™
,
John W. McCredie has joined Refrac- John J. Steecken has been appointed
tories Specialties Co., Philadelphia, manager of the St. Louis Evens &
as a sales representative working out Howard Pipe Co. plant, recently pur-
of the Pittsburgh office. McCredie at hased by W. S. Dickey Clay Mfg
ne time was general sales manage! ‘o. Steecken had been sales manager
for McLain Fire Brick Co. and, after f tl Dickey Northert Ivision
their merger with H. K. Porter Co.,
O. F. Smith, manager of the El Do- was sales manager of the Porter
rado (Ark.) Brick Co., has retired fractories Div.
after 54 years in the brick business.
Marshall B. Hager recently was guest
of t a banquet held
: Pine Hall has announced a change f his ement after 39 years of
He will be succeeded by A. O. West. He, : . : . 41 ae : ; we
Smith t ' ‘at lola. K their mailing address. The new ad- > with th rican Refrac
s 1 beg: nis career at lola, Kans., : - ; ; ; :
ae Oe ~¥§ k ore oan He |} dress is Pine Hall Brick & Pipe Co., tories Co. at e Farber, Mo. plant
a= s ry . vy 7 y i: ae , as = an -
. > Ean“ * El De ‘0 Pn Box 5275, Ardmore Station, Winstor He was succeeded as shop foreman by
en manager of 2 E rado firm - A ees ; ” : - ;
_— — = ee Salem, N.( This includes all cor Robert McKee. Many employees from
since 1923. » - . ‘ .
respondence for both the pine Hall othher companies in the area attended
and Madison, N. C., plants. the dinner.
Don Bailey has been appointed per-
sonnel director of Texas Vitrified Pipe
Co. and its subsidiary companies, ac-
cording to J. F. Bailey, general man-
ager of the Mineral Wells, Tex. firm.
Bailey has been with the organiza- ANOTHER ALLIED KILN INSTALLATION
tion since May, 1957. At one time he
worked for Brazil (Ind.) Clay Co
D. J. Wierman has been named sales
manager for Cloud Ceramics, Con-
eordia Kans. Wierman at ne time
owned Blackwell (Okla.) Brick & Til
owner of the Fort
Wierman Clevinger
Vern C. Clevinger has been appointed
resident manager of the Robinson
Clay Product Co. Indianapolis, Ind., KENDRICK
branch. Clevinger has been with Rob-
n in Indianapolis since 1949
Brick & Tile Co., Inc. *« Monroe, North Carolina
Top quality plus distinctive color has brought KENDRICK
Gerdon Ww. Reed, board chairn ar to a high place in the brick industry. Their deep-red, straight-
the Texas Gulf Producing Co :
special assistant to the chief of
of the U. S. Air Force, recently was oil flashing in the ALLIED Kiln shown above, have had
featured in a column by Inez Robb,
shade brick and their variety of vivid colors, produced from
in 0; enthusiastic acceptance by architects and home builders
nationally syndicated columnist. Reed
in the past was an editor of Brick &
CLAY REcoRD, worked for a time in
throughout the South.
the refractories industry and for the
Hanley Co., all after graduation from
the ceramics department of the Uni-
versity of Illinois. Reed was dis-
cussed in the Robb column in relation
N) Ullied Engineering Division
to the recent visit to the U. S. by LERnd Ld
Aneurin Bevan, British Labor Party FERRO fore] 2-20) 7 Bele).
leader. Reed was quoted for his views 4150 E 56 STREET + CLEVELAND 5. OHIO
disputing statements by Bevan and
for his comments on Bevan after a
conversation between Bevan and
Reed.
DECEMBER, 1957 Please say “I saw It in B&CR”
‘Production Line’’ plant for Cloud Ceramics...
=
ae ek
An entire brick plant in one planned and : fe
coordinated production line that’s the
story in a sentence of the far-sightedness
and progressive management thinking of
Cloud Ceramics, Concordia, Kansas, that
made possible the job Harrop has recently
completed for them
The smooth-flowing production cycle
moves clay from the storage shed to the
grinding room, then through the factory
where green brick are loaded on cars for
immediate transfer to the three-track
Harrop warming chamber, which has a
capacity of 57 kiln cars. Movement of
these cars on the setting tracks and into
the warming chamber is accomplished
automatically by 3 hydraulic pushers. The
green brick are properly conditioned in
the warming chamber before entering the
twin-tunnel Harrop dryer, on their way
to the Harrop tunnel kiln
This integrated operation offers striking
evidence of Harrop’s ability to design, con- RAW CLAY STORAGE
struct and equip the most efficient plant
for producing high-quality ware, at a
profit. It’s tangible evidence of Harrop’s
guiding principle “Practical Ceramic En-
gineering, Put Profitably to Work.”
@ Hasson twos Tune Onvet__ 4 HARROP WARMING CHAMBER —
- — HARROP CAR TUNNEL KILN -——
Here’s the new plant layout, showing the economical production flow from raw clay storage to
storage of finished brick. Photograph shows the new plant in the foreground, with the old plant
visible at the upper right. Specifications for the production line plant are as follows:
Main Building—585’' long by 59’ wide Harrop Twin Tunnel Dryer—each tunnel 183’ long
Harrop Warming Chamber—3-track, 173’ long Harrop Car Tunnel Kiln—402’6” long
Estimated Capacity of Plant—67,000 modular face brick
per 24-hour day, or 62,000 romans, or 45,000 normans
... « .«. designed and equipped by HARROP
POWER WINCH on the
lec rec
wale de os | AIRLOCK at the
cars of dried brick charging end of the
from the Harrop ui’ ‘ - Harrop Car Tunnel
Twin Tunnel Dryer e , Kiln assures constant
Clean waste heat . Re ~= C temperature condi-
from the cooling end P eliaada® 2 tions as each car
of the kiln is : enters the kiln
recirculated through-
out the dryer by a
series of fans ¥
These key production steps in Cloud Ceramics’ new plant
speed production...raise quality...reduce losses
HARROP CAR TUNNEL
KILN is equipped with
97 burners located in
the main firing zone :
preheat zone and three ’ ee FIRED BRICK emerges
high-temperature recircu = from discharge end
lating zones in the : of Harrop open-end
charging end. This = kiln. Facilities provide
burner arrangement ~ : for quick or slow
provides the proper . . cooling, as required.
atmosphere and heating =
control throughout the \
firing cycle. Fuel used
is natural gas
If you are considering the expansion of your sound, efficient planning and proven engi-
present production facilities . . . ask Harrop neering ability . . . a know-how responsible
for assistance now. Whether your project for successful installations in more than 200
calls for a complete new plant, or a single plants representing every type of ceramic
dryer or kiln unit, you'll benefit by Harrop’s production. Harrop invites your inquiry...
write, wire or phone.
Conamic Serwice Co
tHoanrop wurice Co.
35 EAST GAY STREET COLUMBUS 15, OHIO
British Associate: British Ceramic Service Co Lta Bricesco
House, Stoke-on-Trent, England
Agent for Grazii Refratarios e Equipamentos Industriais
*"Retla’’ Lida Sao Paulo, Brazil
Practical Ceramic Engineering, Put Profitably to Work
business togic
eee
rs!
for blockmake
ri 7 @
he .onesmone prem
9
of ’Wisiness
4
< en
“It’s unwise 0 pay too much, but jt’s Worse to pay
f00 little. When You pay too much, You lose a little
t ttle, you
sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought
Was incapable of doing the thing it was
bought to do,
The common law of business balance Prohibits
Paying a little and getting a lot — jz can't be
done If you deal with the lowest bidder, jt is
Well fo adk
| something for the risk y
ou run,
And if You do that You will have enough
£0 pay for something better”
English writer,
ae tkae tax Maas for example,
fat ee ee Vibrapac
machines. The Vibtagne te and faster
for its smooth, automatic perf block. No doubt
roduction of high-quality Id’s leading
about it, ine... a profit maker for
— block plants, everywhere
Plan now for increased pro poh aoe
quality block. Replace imitations or with more
cost-consuming machines, Besser
Vibesgew, kaw ngetty
BESSER Company
Block Plants
a gan, ae ype eee
SCPI Members Told:
Depletion Not Settled Yet; Bigger
Sales Meetings To Come in ‘58
Dunwody elected new SCPI president; NADD elects
Boeglen head of fast-growing group; reports given
on programs of education, promotion, research.
An expanded
aimed at NAHB
omedian;
Word that
toughest fight :
Election of Kennett
Jr., as
rick as depletio mmittee chairman;
Reports the fast-growing NADD er
tion of Durwood Boeglen as president
These are the main events of the annual SCPI member
ship meeting, held at the Greenbrier Hote] at White Sul
phur Springs, W. Va., from Nov. 11-13
attended, representing brick and tile
suppliers and builders
ers
Bigger Sales Tours
One of the high points of the meeting was
given one morning of the soon-to-come sales tor
meetings (see box). The show for 1958 will stress pron
tion of SCR brick and of the Survival Concept in housing
and building. Other aspects of sales and promotion w
also be covered, of course.
As part of this preview, an advance showing was als
made of a show that will be given for NAHB chapters in
the cities where the sales meetings will be held. Among
Texans Bill Coates and Neill Boldrick visit with Philip Dressler at
the meeting.
DECEMBER, 1957
lucat
izing NAHB people t
tively
SCPI Chairman of
levelopments in
ut that the
iming. Rather, Whitlock
beginning (see box.)
ock reviewed at will be de keep
depletion al
reiated
Gammie, Cermak Re-Elected
In addition to the election of President Dunwody and Vice
President Belden, George Gammie was re-elected treasurer
f SCPI and Joe Cermak was re-elected secretary
Dunwody has new duties, new appointments were
depletion committee. Neill Boldrick of Acme
i chairman, with D. J. Renkert and
the committee. In addi
is a member ex-
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Temple of Denver Brick & Pipe chat with
Forrest Paschal at the Greenbrier
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Bigger, Better Sales Meetings
As part of the Greenbrier meeting, a preview was
given of the forthcoming sales conventions and
meetings. The ‘58 tour will be an expanded version
of last year’s with more professional people taking
part in the entertainment-education part of the pro-
gram. Key among the new people is the well-known
comedian, Frank Fontaine.
To judge from the condensed preview given, the
sales meetings will be fast-paced, professional works
which will effectively combine education and sales
training with sufficient entertainment to hold the
audience throughout the day
SCPI Promotion Director Al Walsh and his people
effectively use slides, charts and other visual aids to
get the points across easily, quickly but most
important, lastingly.
Stress SCR, RBM Survival Construction
In the brief preview, emphasis was put on SCR
brick promotion as one of the main efforts of the
year, and also on the SCPRF survival concept of con
struction with RBM. Last year’s stress on sales train
ing, including the sales engineer course and the
allied correspondence course, will be renewed this
year in view of the growing importance of product
knowledge, pre-selling and the need for unified
promotion
Show for NAHB Groups
As part of the preview, SCPI unveiled a show that
will be presented to various NAHB chapters as part
of the tour. The show, similar to the sales presenta-
tions in technique, makes many major points about
how the builder can use brick to help him sell homes.
Use of fireplaces, patios, planters, privacy wolls
and such were urged, all made of brick and used as
built-in sales appeal.
The NAHB groups will be told of SCPI’s promotion
work that they can use to help sell homes. Mer-
chandising was a key word of the NAHB presenta-
tion. The point of the show is to sell clay products
because of construction advantages and built-in
sales advantages.
Other parts of the show will acquaint the builder
with the many products available in the industry; the
different types of construction; and design ideas.
SCPI Continued
Among the interesting uses of promotion at the meet-
ing was a signboard by the new (one-year old) NADD
group. The sign listed the number of members as the
meeting began and, as many signed up during the meet-
ing, the sign kept-up with the growing membership.
The NADD, an association of brick and tile dealers and
distributors, began the meeting with some 76 members.
Last May there were 64 members; by Sept. 17 there were
73 members. By the time the meeting was over, member-
ship had passed the 100-mark, as the signboard showed.
Durwood Boeglen, newly elected NADD president, said
that the best hope of the dealers and distributors is to
work together in a well-organized effort. He pointed out
that every brick and tile salesman must do more than
just take orders, that selling must begin even before the
draftsman puts the first mark on a page, with pre-selling
an important factor today. Boeglen stressed that the real
competition is not within the brick and tile industry, but
from competing products and materials
Other Competition
Boeglen noted that competition also comes from other
sources than building materials. He pointed out that there’s
intense competition for the customer’s dollar from every-
thing from cars to swimming pools. For these reasons,
he stressed the urgency of the need for salesmen with
better training; need for use of all means of proper
use of promotion; the need for combatting phony adver-
tising from competing materials.
Other NADD Speakers
Other speakers at the NADD meeting included Harry
Bates, B, MPIU president who spoke on the need for all
segments of the industry to work together to fight use
of substitute materials. Maurice Goldberg of Belden-Stark
Brick Corp., New York City, discussed the need for better
delivery service and the differing meaning of quality in
product. Also speaking at the meeting were Fred Daues,
MCAA president, and John Stewart, out-going SCPI
president.
The NADD elected, aside from Boeglen, Arthur Moulding
as vice president and re-elected Jack Donahue as secretary-
treasurer. A plaque was given to ex-president Harry
Spaulding in honor of his year’s service. Spaulding’s son
accepted since Spaulding was unable to attend because
of illness
Review of Progress
Opening the main SCPI membership meeting on Mon-
day afternoon, John Stewart reviewed progress made in
such areas as mason relations, SCPI’s technology and
engineering department, the depletion fight, etc.
Following Stewart’s talk, Robert Taylor, SCPRF di-
rector, discussed the work of the Geneva laboratory. Taylor
reviewed the objectives of the laboratory with the prime
objective being end-use research. Some of the work re-
ported on included the light weight research, the panels,
packaging machine, Re-nu-veneer and others.
BRICK & CLAY RECORD
Taylor noted great response to the Survival concept
construction, based on knowledge gained from the Coal
City and A-bomb tests. He reported that the CAA wants
to build 23 buildings using the blast resistant design
on the lower floors. Taylor also said that response from
home-owners shows that they’re interested mainly in
using a core of protection, not in a fully-protected house
Don’t Bury Research
In concluding his talk, Taylor spoke on the need for
use of the results of research, and pointed out the danger
of ignoring these results, of not putting them to use.
Following Taylor, Harry Bates, B,MPIU president.
spoke on the need for greater cooperation between all
branches of the brick and tile industry. Bates discussed
the dangers of substitute materials to the masonry market
and stressed his insistence that his members would take
on a larger part of construction work involving such
+
things as tilt-up panels, etc
Cost-Cutting Danger
President Daues of the MCAA spoke
involved in price-cutting: urged faster
better handling methods and equipment
aging; the need for more stress on quality :
He spoke briefly of the good work done by the
Unit Masonry Assoc. and urged more work to
along this line in other areas
Tom Grimm, of the SCPI engineering
lepartment, reviewed work Deing done and
in this field. He reported on the success
Masor ry Seminars being held at various
quaint architects and others in the uses and :
masonry. Grimm reported that SCPI hopes
seminars this year, and possibly a few above
Federal Construction
The next speaker was H. B. Zackrison J:
engineering division of the Army office of Chi
neers. Among the points made by Zackriso1
stress by the Government on use of quality
reasons of low maintenance, better appearance
bility
Frank W. Crimp, an architect from Boston, spoke
the need for better, more exact specifications, and
problems that result from use of inadequate, insufficiently
letailed specifications.
Whitlock Summary
As the final speaker of the official activities, Dougl:
Whitlock summed up the meeting and discussed at length
the prospects of the industry, the depletion cases, the need
for greater membership and other such topics.
(Continued on page 57)
Bob Harrington of SCPI, George Berry of American Terra Cotta
and Mrs. Owen Ooms at the reception.
DECEMBER, 1957
A Watchful Eye on Depletion
In a review of the Depletion issue at the Green-
brier, SCPI board chairman Doug Whitlock stated
that the depletion problem is far from over. He
seemed to believe that the next stage of the deple-
tion issue may well be more difficult than the first
stage, which ended recently with the Supreme Court
not reviewing the past depletion cases.
Whitlock feels sure that granting of the depletion
allowance will be treated by the government as un-
necessary legislation with publicity intended to prove
this contention. He also felt that the government will
try to get the same opinion across to Congress in
hopes of getting revision of Congress’ past intentions
in the matter.
The new depletion committee of George Gammie, Neill
Boldrick, D. J. Renkert with member ex officio Ken Dun
wody in background
As another key point, it is believed that deple-
tion must be granted to all mineral industries and
that the clay industry must help to keep depletion al-
lowances for all. He’s sure that no situation can exist
wherein only the brick and tile people are allowed
depletion. For this reason, the question of the fire
clay allowance as a means of protecting the brick
and tile clay allowance needs attention
Oil Industry Can Help
For reasons of unity, the brick and tile industry
needs support from the oil industry. With this sup-
port the problem of depletion for all minera! indus-
tries is more likely to stay in force.
In view of the foregoing, the new depletion pro-
cedure is a combination legal-political problem.
Whitlock strongly urged all members, both of
SCPI and the industry, to personally contact their
Congressmen and Senators to avoid any negative
thinking. The approach will be on two political levels
with the SCPlI-Washington people working in the
Capitol and the members talking to men from Con-
gress at the home level. An education of political
leaders may be the most vital part of the coming
phase.
It's important that all the Texas, Oklahoma and
other oil-state clay products people exert themselves
to get the oil industry on our side. As a further step,
all possible must be done to help other industries in-
volved in the depletion allowances, to participate in
a depletion allowance.
To continue the depletion action, a further fund of
$100,000 is needed.
In summary, Whitlock, as general counsel for
SCPI, is far from convinced that depletion is fully
won. To insure ground gained, he and SCPI are
laying plans for insuring these gains . . . which may
be a controversy just as long and possibly even
tougher.
Tunnel
Doubles
Cloud's
Output
New plant addition was carefully designed for
optimum efficiency; company stresses mechani-
cal handling, uses forced draft.
product
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piant
Started With 6 Periodics
When Cloud Ceramics was organized, in
and George Cook, plans were made for
periodic plant. The site was selected as a result of
tion work done | the Kansas State Geological
inder direction of ceramist Norman Plummer
The studies indicat
for face brick manufac
deposits of «
areas. Also indicated
These are the stoners used at Cloud to remove pyrites from
the clay. BELOW: The setting crew; warming chamber in back
ground
95 acre
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Good Product Reception
Production of the plant met a read;
the quality and the range of colors
the Cloud owners
it low the growth of their sales
The first additional construction was of five more pe-
riodie kilns, all 30’ size, plus associated improvements
manufacturing that brought total production up to
million a month.
Despite this added capacity, in 1955 ¢
was still unable to keep up with demand
best available manpower, equipment
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company was an early user of lift trucks in brick handling
and of using mechanical draft.
Basing their plans on their insistence upon quality, the
management began laying careful plans for added capacity
The new plant was to be one of high capacity with no com-
promise made in quality. The problem of designing the
plant was given to Harrop Ceramic Service with construc-
tion begun in October, 1956; operation beginning in July,
1957.
Uses Four Clays
Cloud uses four different clays for control of color in
their brick. The clays come from two pits, one by the
plant and the other 14 miles away. After overburden is
stripped, the upper strata of clay is used for one set of
color and then the lower strata, producing other colors, is
taken.
Each pit is equipped with a 4% yd. Koehring, with a Byers
% yd. also available for use. As the clay is removed, it is
carried to the plant by GMC twin axle dump trucks
er LMULlllClh
Storage and Crushing
In back row ore Don Wierman, George Cook, Charles Cook,
At the plant, the clay is dumped into an Iowa 36 x 12 Richard Cook and David Young. In front are Carl Stangel and
Cedar Rapids feeder which maintains a steady flow to the
Eagle double roll crusher for primary crushing
This Eagle crusher is the heavy duty Senior size, de-
signed with 6” square heat treated forged alloy shafts. A
feature of this crusher is an extended shaft that’s equipped
with a sprocket and chain drive to power the feeder. This
Dean Townsend
+}
arrangement allows one 125 hp GE motor to operate bot
feeder and crusher.
After reduction to a maximum size of 3”, the clay goes
by belt to a shuttle conveyor at the top of a 60 x 153’ Var-
ner clay shed. The shuttle is designed so that the clay car
be put in any part of the storage shed at the rate of 60-70
tons per hour, into any one of five bins.
Four of the bins are used for clay and the fifth for ground
brick which Cloud uses for grog.
Blending and Grinding
The pre-sized clay then moves from storage to grindin
with use of a Hough front end loader. Since grinding facili-
ties are on the third lower level, the Hough can dump
directly into the large capacity bins. There are three of
these bins, each of which can feed either of the two 9
Eagle dry pans.
The driving gear on the six clay feeders are by Sterling
Speedtrol, designed to allow any blend of materials and
quick change of blends when needed.
Fine grinding is done in the two pans, both equipped with
16” slotted plates. These pans are totally enclosed, with
a spray system used to reduce dust. Each pan is powered
with a 50 hp motor running at 900 rpm.
From the grinders, clay moves to four type M 42 x 96’
Universal vibrating screens, equipped with Unilec dual
heating systems and completely enclosed. Material pass-
ing over the #5 mesh screens is then conveyed to a large
surge bin, with tailings going through a pair of stoners
before going back to the dry pans.
Closeup of feeder drive that feeds the supply belt for one
of the dry pans at Cloud
Stoners Remove Pyrites
These stoners, believed to be the first such in a brick
plant, are used to remove pyrites. The machines are built
by Sutton, Steele & Steele of Dallas.
The feed from the surge bin goes to the lowest of the
vlant levels, the machine room and kiln area, with feed
going directly to the 50F Steele pug sealer. Tempering
water is added through a water spray assembly that deliv-
(Continued on next page)
General view of screening de-
portment at Cloud; four screens
are at left with the stoners
visible at center.
CLOUD Continued
a high pressure spray for quick, even wetting. The pug
l a 60FV combined type, separate
moves the clay to
drive Steele pugging and vacuum extrusion machine
lubricated dies, with oil fed by a chemical
feed type pump, and a Foxboro Rotax oil pressure recorder
hooked on to keep a record of die pressure and, indirectly,
of the clay’s water content. The normal pressure of oil
supplied to the die is about 100 lbs. Cloud uses some 22-23
inches of vacuum during extrusion.
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Cloud uses 0
Cutting and Hacking
The brick are then cut on a Steele #18 cutter which is
equipped for quick reel change when the company switches
to roman or norman production, a substantial part of their
output. The company has standardized on the “A” reel
feeling this is most satisfactory for their operation.
The brick machine-cutter set-up is located so that they’re
elevated above the mill-room floor to allow kiln cats to pass
under the belt, with provision made for three tracks lead-
ng to a holding chamber
The clay handling facilities were designed by Harrop
based on Cloud’s suggestions, with use of Stephens-Adam-
son idlers and Goodyear belting
Six men standing on the kiln cars by the off-bearing belt
take the brick at waist height for car setting. The Rockett
kiln cars, equipped with Sanford-Day bearings and North
State car tops, are 7'°2” x 9’, loaded with 16 courses of brick
for a total load of 3,600 8” brick or the equivalent in roman
or norman.
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Cloud uses fork lift trucks extensively, including for periodic
kiln loading and other handling
46
Above is an aerial view of Cloud showing the tunnel kiln build-
ing in foreground; clay shed behind tunnel; periodics at
upper right
The kiln cars are moved from hacking to the warming
chamber by hydraulic pushers operated by push button by
the setters. The warming chamber itself is 173’ long with
three tracks, holding 57 kiln cars at full load. Very little
actual drying takes place in the 100 degrees of the warming
chamber since the function of this unit is to keep the brick
n the same condition as when they left the cutter.
The chamber prevents damage that could result from the
loaded cars being exposed to the atmosphere, and allows
more efficient operation of the dryer.
The kiln cars are moved from warming to drying by
electric transfer cars from Engineering Associates. The
183’, double track dryer receives heat from the cooling area
of the kiln through a glass-wool insulated duct that’s
wrapped with aluminum for reflective insulation.
The Harrop dryer has a cross section of 7'2” x 5'114”
in each tunnel, with waste heat from the kiln cooling sec-
tion used. Each tunnel of the dryer has five sections with
each under temperature and humidity control with use of
Brown instruments. With rated capacity of 67,000 brick
daily and 40 car capacity, designed drying cycle is 48 hours.
In the kiln itself, the cross section is 7°2” x 5'1%” and
the length is 403’ including air lock. The air lock operates
with a guillotine door that’s lowered to isolate the kiln
from the atmosphere when the charging doors are open.
The guillotine door is electrically operated, functioning
automatically when the ram moves back for another car.
(Continued on page 58)
A view alongside the Harrop kiln shows the extensive metal-
work; plant has dual-fuel burners.
BRICK & CLAY RECORD
NEW ALLIS-CHALMERS
TORQUE CONVERTER DRIVE
Just flip lever ahead for forward, back for reverse —
with light finger-tip touch. You’ll be surprised how
fast and smoothly you change directions, without
jerking. You work fast, stay fresh, get more done
Have full control — ALWAYS, with every move for-
ward or reverse made under constant, positive power
coupling. No coasting, no dangerous delay between
power application and braking
Brake to stop — merely release pedal to restart.
Applying brake pedal, at left of accelerator, does not
break power coupling. This saves time and effort
stopping and starting
There's additional safety in two new features: engine
will not start while truck is in gear — and POWER
SHIFT Drive automatically returns to neutral if
operator leaves the seat.
“INCHING PEDAL
Inching pedal lets you move fast or just creep, always
under full, positive control. With this you also have
full engine power for fast lifting, even while inching.
The torque convertér, on all Allis-Chalmers trucks
with POWER SHIFT Drive, automatically matches
power to load, multiplies working ability, increases
gradability.
POWER SHIFT Drive is simple to operate and
service — dependable, too.
Get the complete story on how POWER SHIFT
saves time, makes driving trucks easier, helps
get more done. See your Allis-Chalmers
material handling dealer... or write for
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ALLIS-CHALMERS, MATERIAL HANDLING DEPT., BUDA DIVISION, MILWAUKEE 1, WISCONSIN
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concernin an installation at the had been reached by any operator. Mr.
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tire operation is controlled by one
man. We are now starting on auto-
matic weighing of the raw material on
a continuous basis to which we will
add a constant percentage of chemical
admixes and a constant but variable
percentage of moisture. All this will
be done without the addition of any
personnel. When this is accomplished,
we will have achieved, as close as I
know how, complete automation.’”
Again quoting Weber, “ .. . he
means that the shale will be crushed,
fed, and weighed automatically and
moisture along with several chemical
admixes would be added automatically,
so that the only functions of the op-
erator would be to prepare the slurries
for the next shift in accordance with
the desired colors and to watch for
breakdown of any sort.”
Weber also included a photograph
of the control board (shown here) that
was sent to him by Robertson.
An inident im Chicago at Illinois
Brick Co. ought to prove that nobody
should tangle with a brick plant em-
ployee, no matter what his age. Charles
Clever, night watchmen, rece ntly
routed three would-be hold-up men
who came into the office one night in
October. The men, carrying revolvers,
were attacked and routed by Clever,
who had to have 8 stitches taken in
his head after the fight. About a week
after the fight, Clever had his 83rd
birthday.
Word from Jim Neville and Chuck
Wetzler, of SCPI-Region 6, is that
{7 Brick show homes attracted 125,-
000 people in the cities of Des Moines,
St. Paul and Minneapolis during the
summer promotion event. The success
of the shows was as good or better
than last year, to judge by comments
by contractors who report getting 200
“hot” prospects for brick homes. Soon
we'll run a full story on a promotion
in Cleveland along this line. Plans
are underway for an even bigger job
next summer in the Region 6 area.
Paul B. Belden, board chairman of
Belden Brick Co., Canton, Ohio, was
re-elected president and board chair-
man of the Ohio Public Expenditure
Council.
BRICK & CLAY RECORD
Carbon County's 14-cu. yd. TerraTrac loads three 5-yd. trucks
in 6 minutes — handles over 1000 cu. yds. of gravel a day
without tearing up pit floor, as former machines did
ad
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Yellowstone National Park, recently replaced a bulldozer — keeps the floor of their pits in better condition for load-
and expensive dragline with ONE fast-moving 1'4-yd. Case ing. Says Shandy, “We've used the TerraTrac in 4 differ-
TerraTrac Model 800 tractor-shovel. Result: pit produc- ent pits and find that, regardless of floor level, it does not
tear up the floor materials, as former machines did.”
tion was increased 30%, with greatly reduced investment
According to Edgar Gruel, County Commissioner of Mon-
tana District 2, in Joliet, “We liked the price and advanced Handles variety of jobs
features of the 80 HP diesel-powered TerraTrac. But, Besides speeding gravel-loading, Carbon County's 144-yd.
being a new machine, we wondered if it would deliver the TerraTrac is kept busy loading 3200 to 3800-lb. rim-rock
goods. Now, after 3 months’ operation, we've found it does boulders, for rip-rapping river banks. . . digging-out, clean-
more jobs, and does them better than we even expected. It ing and replacing steel culverts... digging cattle crossings
has already moved 11,000 yds. of material in 150 hours, ...and handling general road-maintenance work. “We
with no noticeable wear.” formerly had to haul out two or three machines to do these
jobs — now we handle everything with one TerraTrac ‘800’ ,”
“Best machine I’ve ever operated” says Commissioner Gruel.
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ROBINSON ELECTED NCPMI HEAD
Fall meeting elects Reed vice-president. Reports include
good advertising results from program; new laboratory nearly
completed; good business predicted for 1958.
The 1957 Fall Meeting of the Na
tional Clay Pipe Manufacturers, Inc
was held on November 6, 7, 8 and 9th
at The Wigwam,
near Phoenix, Arizona. Migsing was
the genial former President, D. M
Strickland, who, because of serious
iliness, could not be present at this
meeting
Nevertheless, through the thought
ful arrangements of the new Presi
dent, G \ “Robby” Robinson,
“Strick’s” voice was heard fron
Washington, D. C., by means of a
special long distance telephone con-
loud speakers, at the Ban-
quet Friday. The members expressed
their best wishes to him from “The
heard by
nection and
Wigwam” which were
“Strick” over the same hookup.
Mr. Strickland was also presented
with a bronze medallion which formed
the center of a beautiful eight day
clock encased in clear lucite. Bronze
medallions, also encased in clear lu
cite, were presented to J. L. “Jake
Tremper, President of Streator Drair
Tile Co. and to Mr. Ralph A. Ferre
ra, General Sales Manager of Robin
son Clay Product Co whose early
support, enthusiasm and untiring ef-
forts contributed so much to get NC-
PMI organized and operating
President Robinson
Litchfield Park,
A. I “Al” Reed was elected Vice
President and Director of Research
by the Beard of Directors.
At the General Membership Meet-
ng on Friday, the various committee
chairmen of the Advertising, Deple-
tion, Research and Specification Com-
mittees gave rep rts of the work of
their respective committees.
Vice President Reed
The Advertising Committee showed
that excellent returns were received
from news releases sent out by Gris-
wold-Eshleman Company, (Public Re-
lations Counsel for NCPMI), repre-
sented by David Skylar, who directed
the campaign Skylar introduced
Robert R. Schroeder, who will take
over some of Skylar’s activities in
this work.
N. J. “Norm” Mark, Sales Man-
iwzer, American Vitrified Products
Co., Chairman, NCPMI Advertising
Committee, requested that Norman
Malone, President, Norman Malone
Associates, present the advertising
program for 1958 which was approved
by the NCPMI Advertising Commit-
tee.
R. G: “Bob” Scott, Vice President
and General Manager of the Clay
Products -Association and Chairman
of the NCPMI Specification Commit-
tee gave this Committee’s report.
R. H. “Andy” Anderson, Director
of Research for the Robinson Clay
Product Co. and Chairman of NCPMI
Research Committee, requested that
A. J. “Al” Reed, NCPMI Director of
Research, discuss the various research
projects in progress
Lab Nearly Complete
Reed also reported that the new
NCPMI Laboratory in Crystal Lake
is nearing completion and upon com-
pletion, will be dedicated as the “D.
M. Strickland NCPMI Research Lab-
oratory.”
M. R. Hardin, Vice President of the
W. S. Dickey Clay Mfg. Co. and
Chairman of the NCPMI Depletion
Committee, reported the current sta-
tus on percentage depletion. The
Committee will continue to cooperate
with the SCPI Depletion Committee
on depletion matters.
Manufacturers of vitrified clay pipe
reported business slightly off for the
first 10 months of 1957. It was, how
ever, the consensus of opinion that
business would be good in 1958.
Hans P. Wilhelmsen, President of
the W. S. Dickey Clay Mfg. Co., re-
ported for the Board of Directors
He highlighted the various actions
taken by the Board at their meeting
on Wednesday, November 7th. Wil-
helmsen’s report was unanimously ac-
cepted at the General Membership
Meeting on November &th.
Drop ‘Strick’’
A Note
D. M. Strickland, retired president
of NCPMI, has been seriously ill re-
cently. The editors of Brick & CLAY
ReEcorD would like to suggest that
NCPMI members drop “Strick” a note,
telling him of some of their business
and/or personal activities. We’re cer-
tain that “Strick” would like to keep
up with the latest news from you.
Write to him at NCPMI headquar-
ters in Washington, D. C.
However, please don’t expect a note
in return. Answering a large volume
of mail would impose an unnecessary
strain on “Strick.”
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Clockwise, from left, are Mrs. and Mr.
T. S. Rawson of lowa Pipe & Tile Co.;
R. R. Schroeder of Griswold-Eshleman;
Charles Perry of NCMPI
Being served coffee are Mrs. and Mr.
B. S. Holl of Logan Clay, with J. J. Dyer,
president of Kaul Clay Mfg. Co
Included here are Mrs. and Mr. Norman
Malone of Norman Malone Assoc.; Mr
and Mrs. (back to camera) Harry Steitz
lein
N. J. Mark and E. L. Miller of American
Vitrified Products Co.; Miss Kay Mark;
Mrs. E. L. Andrews and Mr. Andrews, both
of American Vitrified, reading from left
to right around the table at the Phoenix
NCPMI meeting
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Kuouhts Report on...
European Methods of
The concluding article of this series discusses research,
marketing and refractories manufacture in Belgium and
France, as seen on a trip by Robert Knauft.
Belgium and France
Since I visited only two companies
or two groups in each of these two
countries, and their economies are
similar, I think we can discuss them
as one and save time.
The refractories industries in Bel-
gium and France have several things
in common, (1) a desire to produce all
of the refractories required for indus-
try within their respective countries,
which were imported from Germany
prior to World War II. This applies
particularly to the steel industry. (2)
The two countries are rather small and
competition within their own borders
is very keen. (3) The governments
permit the formation of cartels to
control production, and to some extent,
selling at prices which will return a
profit.
Here again we find the pattern of
smaller works manufacturing a vari-
ety of dissimilar refractories in the
same plant in order to supply the
needs of their customers.
Smaller Consumers
Their consuming industries are
smaller, for the most part, than those
which we serve in the United States
and the customer expects to have all
or most of the refractories required
for a given furnace shipped from one
source by one supplier. In Belgium,
Union Chimique Belge has merged
with six other refractory producers to
form BELREF. This has enabled them
to build and staff a complete refrac-
tories laboratory equipped with facili-
ties for X-ray, petrographic, physical
testing and chemical analyses.
The steel industry of Belgium and
Luxembourg, together with the glass
industry in Belgium, will consume
most of the refractories produced in
Belgium. The 7 steel mills operating in
Belgium will produce about 6,600,000
metric tons of steel in 1956.
DECEMBER, 1957
Of special interest was the produc-
tion of large blocks for blast furnace
bottoms by the pneumatic tamping
method, in steel molds. These blocks
are key shaped, varying from 4 to 6”
in thickness and about 18 to 20” long.
Due to labor conditions in the coun-
try, there seems to be a great tendency
to use the molder and apprentice sys-
tem to produce shapes by pneumatic
ramming which we would normally
make on power presses.
France
Many of you know Dr. Yves Letort
who is general manager of the Societe
General de Produits Refractaires with
headquarters in Paris, and Louise
Halm, director of research. This new
company was formed after the war by
merging six of the largest producers
of refractories in France.
The new company has a capacity of
200,000 metric tons per year and is
supplying fire clay, high alumina,
sillimanite, silica, basic and some car-
bon refractories. The total refractory
production for France in 1955 was ap-
proximately 250,000 tons, so the im-
portance of Societe to the total mar-
ket is readily apparent.
The Societe also operates a central
research laboratory in Paris, Union
Francaise del Produits Refractaires,
under the direction of Louise Halm.
She is not only a delightful person
but possesses a very keen knowledge
of refractories in general and of what
refractories manufacturers are. doing
throughout the world.
The central laboratory nas staff of
17 and is completely equipped for
chemical analyses, physical testing,
X-ray and petrographic work.
Colonies Provide Materials
rather unique in that
materials which are not
France is
those raw
found in France are usually imported
from one of her colonial possessions.
Under the Colonial policy which they
have followed since World War II and
the state of their economy, France is
poorly organized for export of refrac-
tories as most of their products are
consumed within their empire.
They do not appear to be as active
in basic refractories as other European
countries. Their rotary cement kilns,
for example, are usually lined with
high alumina blocks made of calcined
bauxite, which is mined in France.
The average worker in the French
refractories plant will receive about
80 cents per hour and works only 40
hours per week.. These are shorter
hours and higher wages than are com-
mon in either Great Britain, Belgium
or Western Germany. I was told that
there are about seven national unions
in France, very few trade unions, as
we know them in North America, and
no closed shop. It is common to find
both union and nonunion workers in
the plant, performing the same task
and for the same wage.
I hope this rambling discussion of
products, people and refractories pro-
duction, as practiced in these coun-
tries, hds been of some interest to you.
Our industry does seem to be run by
a good type of citizen abroad as well
as here and I believe that any of you
who are interested in making a simi-
lar trip will find that you are most
welcome and that the experience would
be rewarding.
I should like to take this opportunity
to express my appreciation to those
whom I visited in Britain and Europ:
for their time and many courtesies.
Part Il of a@ Series
This article concludes a two-part series of a report on refractories manufacture
in Europe, as seen on a four by Robert Knauft, president of Charles Taylor
Sons Co.
Part one appeared in the October issue, page 78.
How You Can Use It - - -
And What the Problems Are
The second part of this series discusses engobes, what
they are, how to use them, the advantages of this color
method and the production methods involved in their use.
By
Thomas D. Carnahan
feld & C a
Washingt Pennsyivania
B. F. Draker
Several years ago some of the red
shale brick producers began experi-
ments with low temperature brightly
colored glazes on fired brick, and a
number of these brightly colored brick
are now in use. One of the best pub-
licized and the most striking use of
this brick is in the new General Motors
Research Center. A number of brick
manufacturers are interested in mak-
ing a similar brick and it may be
worthy of some discussion.
The glazes used on these brick are
completely prepared glazes and they
are merely mixed with water and
sprayed on fired brick. The glazes
themselves are comparatively high
priced and the extra handling and re-
firing of the brick helps to push the
cost up. However, I understand that
the the selling price of these brick is
quite high and cost is really not too
important.
Bright Colors
In general, the color palette in these
low-fire glazes has been pretty well re-
stricted to bright reds, oranges, yel-
lows, blues, and greens, shades that
cannot be duplicated in higher fire
glazes. The red and orange series of
glazes are colored with a cadmium sul-
foselenide type of pigment and it is
the nature of this colorant to be quite
volatile. Our series of glazes are for-
mulated to mature at about 1750° F.
or 1800° F. and this is rather close to
the upper limit at which a red or
orange can be produced in a production
kiln. Tie selenium volatilization is
more or less a function of time and
o4
temperature, and, when a long firing
cycle (24 or 36 hours) is used, the
temperature must be kept on the low
side.
As the firing time is reduced, then
the firing temperature may be in-
creased somewhat. In one laboratory,
in enclosed saggers, red glazes have
been fired as high as 2100° F. on an
extremely fast cycle.
It is, therefore, the red and orange
glazes which determine the firing tem-
perature of the low fire glaze series
and the other glazes are formulated to
fire in the same temperature range for
reasons of convenience.
Most of these glazes show a rather
wide color range when fired and any of
you who are thinking of using this
type of glaze should not plan on recov-
ering a straight shade. Since the firing
cycle of these glazes must be as short
as possible, we would suggest firing
in a small periodic kiln on a cycle of
one day or less.
These very soft, low fire glazes have
a characteristic high coefficient of
thermal expansion and will, if not care-
fully compounded, craz eon most brick
or tile bodies. The crazing is generally
worse on the buc clay bodies than on
red clays. Some of the glazes have
rather low acid resistance and will
show weather attack or loss of gloss
after one or two years exposure to the
elements. For these reasons, these
glazes are not recommendd for gn-
eral brick use; if they must be used,
we suggest that you test the brick
thoroughly.
Part Il of a Series
A somewhat newer coloring process,
and one which we have been trying to
promote particularly among the brick
manufacturers, is the use of colored
engobe. An engobe, according to our
way of thinking, is similar to a glaze
in some of the ingredients used and
in the method of application but it is
quite dissimilar in other respects.
Some of these dissimilarities should
become evident in the discussion that
follows.
To satisfy the demand for color,
sometime ago we began development
of a surface coating that could be
adapted to a large number of brick
plants. For a number of reasons de-
scribed previeusly, glazes are not a
suitable low cost method for coloring
the majority of the red face brick
produced in this country.
Fire Without Sealing
We, therefore, approached the prob-
lem from the standpoint of finding out
if a coating could be developed which
would have good adherence to the
brick but which would not seal the
brick surface. We were particuliarly
anxious to leave the surface open be-
cause of the carbon burn out problem
mentioned earlier. Out of this work
were derived some mixes which looked
very promising for us and which we
choose to call engobes.
There are some very interesting fea-
tures about these engobes which we
think will be of value to some of the
producers of red shale brick. Most
impoftant, we think, is the ability of
The first part of this article, discussing various types of coloring methods and the
advantages and problems of each, appeared in the November issue, beginning
on page 52.
BRICK & CLAY RECORD
these coatings to be fired onto the sur
face without sealing the surface. This
is a very desirable feature since an
engobe can be applied to just about
any clay or shale and fired on the nor
mal firing schedule without making
any firing changes to accommodate
the engobe. We have plant tested en
gobe mixes at firing temperatures
ranging between 1800° F. and 2300° F.
and have had no trouble with eithe
the body or the engobe.
Here, then, is a coloring process
which is available to all brick manu-
facturers and which can provide a
color palette of pinks, greens, grays,
blues, yellows, and many intermediate
shades. Of course, a surface coating
which does net seal the brick surface
will not be completely vitrified
Has Advantages
This feature has a number of advan-
tages. Since these coatings are rather
refractory and have a comparatively
low percentage of glass phase, they
will have excellent opacity. It is our
recommendation then that these be
applied in extremely thin coatings
We predict that engobe consumption
may go under 10 lbs. of dry material
per 1000 brick as compared with 35
lbs. or 40 lbs. for an equivalent glaze
application. From these figures it
would seem safe to assume that en-
gobing can be a cheap process, at least
from the raw material standpoint
Another very real advantage of an
extremely thin coating is that it min
imizes any problem of fit with the
brick body. In some of our early ex-
periments we were using engobe thick
nesses in the range found on glazed
brick, about .015 inches. On some of
the red shale brick bodies we did run
into some crazing troubles but this
was virtually eliminated when we went
to the thinner coatings
Since the inherent opacity of these
mixes is quite good, they will not only
hide the brick body which they cover
but will also tend to hide any pigment
put into them. In order to maintain a
low cost engobe mix, we have tried
to keep pigment additions at 2% or
lower, and these low additions, coupled
with high opacity, have produced only
pastel shades. Darker shades are pos-
sible to make but may require rela-
tively higher stain additions.
Slip Preparation
Another feature of the engobe coat-
ing involves the preparation of the en-
gobe slip. The mixtures with which we
have experimented contain conven-
tional glaze ingredients such as feld-
spar, clay, flint, whiting, zinc, and
sometimes barium carbonate or lead
bisilicate. All of these materials are
commercially available in a 200 mesh
size or finer.
In the preparaticn of normal bright
glaze it is customary to grind the glaze
slip fine enough so that only a fraction
of a percent will be coarser than 325
mesh, and this is a very worthwhile
practice. However, in our engobes we
(Continued on page 61)
DECEMBER, 1957
Difficult batching problems
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The development of the
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controlling materials processing sys-
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hitherto impractical batching opera-
tions. For instance, several different
flushing materials (flooding pow.
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leakage by a tipping bucket weigh
hopper (Fig. 1) .controlled by a
series of different range Thayer
weigh beams
Fig. 2
Thayer individual batching
scales can be used to furnish pre-
weighed charges which may be
varied in weight to suit the formula
The system shown (Fig. 2) can be
furnished to allow positioning under
various bins or feeders so each scale
will preweigh a given weight charge
and discharge it to a conveyor belt
or to a mixer for further processing
Fig. 3
Where many ingredients
are to be handled and there is a
factor of space saving and a mini-
mum amount of equipment, it is
possible to utilize an accumulative
batching scale which can either be
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This unit will have a large weigh
hopper sufficient to accommodate the
total weight of any number of in-
gredients desired to be accumulated
To secure accuracy in various weight
ranges, the weighing of each indivi-
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its own weigh beam on the scale and
the various ingredients will be
weighed into the common weigh
hopper in turn at the prescribed
formulated weight
Difficult to handle mate-
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liquids and other such ingredients
which leave a re-
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by first precharg- Fig. 4
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within the hopper will not affec: the
weight of the next discharged load
Such a ‘it can be used either as a
single batching scale or as an ac-
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Engineered solutions such
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56
SCPI Continued
Whitlock discussed the purposes of SCPI and how the
work is done. He stated an aim of SCPI as being to do
work of industrial thinking and. planning as thoroughly
and intelligently as possible.
In a prediction of business conditions for 1958, Whitlock
reported general opinion that it would be similar to 1957
with some possible variation up or down, but only slight
variation
Needs More Support
Whitlock put considerable stress on the need for greate
support of SCPI, particularly through increased member-
ship. During the year, SCPI plans to’ make a diligent ef-
fort to secure members and to explain to the industry the
aims, purposes and working methods of the organization
Whitlock also urged that the members take the results
of research work and put them into production use as
quickly as possible. He pointed out that there’s little use
in spending money for research if the results of research
are not adopted.
For Better Attendance
SCPI-National is organizing a series of sales meetings
which will be held throughout the country for the benefit
of manufacturers, their salesmen, dealers and the dealers
salesmen.
It's an opportunity for everyone to latch onto, especially
in today’s strongly competitive market. It means that all
dealers, salesmen—yes, even manufacturers—should at-
tend these meetings.
“Hot Belt’’
Correction
In an article concerning the use of
“hot belts’ at Onondaga Brick Corp.,
in the November issue, we said that
these belts operate 4 hours a day, 6
days a week. This actually was a typo-
graphical error: the belts run 24 hours
a day, not just four.
The Manufacturers Equipment Co.,
Dayton, Ohio announces the appoint
ment of McDonald Welding Ltd., Oak-
ville, Ontario as their new sales dis-
tributor in Canada.
Appointment of Ray M. Ronald to
the managership of Hyster’s tractor
equipment division, Peoria, Ill. was
announced by Philip S. Hill, executive
vice-president of Hyster Co., Port-
land, Ore.
In a recent appointment, John H.
Sharda was made sales training man-
ager for LeTourneau-Westinghouse
Co., Peoria, Il.
Appointment of Mark T.. Gilkison
as manager of the Industrial Sales
Division for. Gates Rubber Co., Den-
ver, Colo. was: arnounced by C. H.
Mingle, vice-president and director df
marketing.
DECEMBER, 1957
Here is how you can make these meetings succeed, Mr.
Manufacturer:
1. Write all of your dealers a personal letter selling
them on the idea of attending; give all particulars, place-
date-time-length, including what they’ll hear.
2. Sell your salesmen on attending, by use of interoffice
memos.
3. Have your salesmen call on all of your dealers, mak-
ing sure that they reserve the date for the meeting. Your
salesmen should take the time to sell the dealer on the
benefits to be gained from attending, and should try to
create interest.
4. Follow up your first effort to get dealers attendance
a few weeks after the first letter. This time, enclose a reply
card so you'll know who's coming to the meeting.
5. Follow up on all of those who don’t return the reply
card and make sure that they haven’t just overlooked it.
Only in this way can you be assured ‘hat the money
spent by the SCP! staff will be of any real value to you.
There’s too much at stake to neglect these meetings as
they have been in the past, when attendance was poor.
It costs no more to give the performance to 500 than
to 50.
While we're speaking of attendance and meetings,
SCPI is also showing clay products to home builders (see
SCPI meeting story in this issue) on at least sixteen occa-
sions in the coming months. Are you and your salesmen
planning to attend?
It seems to us that here’s a real opportunity to get
acquainted with home builders, to help answer their ques-
tions and to button-hole them for business. Are you
going to attend?
Congratulations
To
CLOUD CERAMICS
We are proud to have installed the
Sheet Metal Work and Kiln Piping in
this new plant. This work was done on
the installation of Harrop Kilns.
DANSER SHEET METAL WORKS
INDUSTRIAL - COMMERCIAL
124 Market Street
Parkersburg, W. Va.
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CLOUD Continued
Some 98 burners are used on the Harrop kiln, with 78 of
these dual-fuel North Americans’. In addition, 20 gas
burners are used. So far, lines have not been installed for
use of oil although this addition is planned. Gas supply has
been dependable but Cloud wants to have standby if neces
sary. The piping connected with the kiln was fabricated
by Danser Sheet Metal Works who also installed the air
ducting.
The kiln has a pre-heat zone, three hi-temperature re
circulating zones, and the main firing zone in the charge
end. The main fire zone is controlled by two automatic sys-
tems. With the air lock and number of burners used in the
various zones, accurate control of the kiln atmosphere is
possible.
Have Careful Kiln Control
With such refinements and equipment, the Cloud ope,
ators have a means of maintaining virtually ideal firing
conditions with resultant high quality of brick. The dis-
charge end of the kiln is designed with two recirculating
sections in the slow cooling area in addition ito the quick
cooling area. Robinson fans are used throughout the plant
Controls again have been provided that allow maintain-
ing of a cooling curve that keeps brick loss to a minimum
The kiln, designed to produce two million a month, was
handling 16 cars in the schedule six weeks after produetion
began. Cloud management. is confident that they can soon
exceed the designed capacity of the kiln.
The kiln has Brown instruments by Minneapolis-Honey-
well which keep constant record of the temperature at “two
points and with which 30 couples are installed for hourly
readings. The kiln is fired to about 2200 deg. F
Kiln Buildings
The new plant is housed in steel frame, corrugated alu-
minum buildings put up by R. G. Varner Steel. The light,
reflective aluminum in conjunction with use of skylights
allows excellent illumination throughout. The kiln building
itself is 60 x 585’. The combined area of storage, machine
and grinding rooms, etc., gives the company 59,880 sq. ft.
of covered floor space
Lift Trucks Handle Ware
The fired ware is moved from the kiln cars by Clark lift
trucks equipped with Schmidgall forks. These forks have
been altered by adding an angle iron to the top of each tine.
The hacks are set on a double course of brick which forms
the skid. Brick are set in four hacks on each car with
Cloud experiencing no difficulty in removing each block
with the lift truck for removal to the storage yard. The
forks can handle either regular or oversize brick without
changing spacing.
The storage yard is paved, lying between the plant and
the rail siding which has space for 14 cars. The brick to
be shipped are moved into the car by fork truck with the
blocks being broken up and stacked in the rail car in the
normal manner. The percentage of brick not suitable for
shipping runs less than 1%
Cloud Management and Personnel
Cloud Ceramics was formed by Charles S. Cook and
George H. Cook, who are pesident and vice president» re
spectively. David Young, ceramic engineer, is superin®
tendent in charge of both plants. Richard A. Cook is vice
president-assistant manager. Sales manager is Don J.
Wierman and office manager is Dean Townsend.
The company employs about 65 men, about 25 directly
in the new plant and the rest in the old plant and support-
ing departments. The management of Cloud is very proud
of the quality of their employees. They attribute the pro-
ductivity and the quality of their operation to the policy
of hiring the best men available.
Cloud products are sold through distributors located in
many parts of the country.
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No grates are used thus minimizing upkeep expense.
Reversible rotation makes manual turning of ham-
mers unnecessary; adjustable impact blocks cut labor,
downtime. Parts life is prolonged up to 7 times!
Write.today for catalog ry
Internal view showing man-
ganese steel impact blocks,
hammers and liners: Rug-
ged, heavy steel. plate.con-
struction. Extra large shafts
are mounted in. oversize
bearings sealed ‘in self-
aligning housings.
WILLIAMS PATENT CRUSHER & PULVERIZER CO.
2709 N. BROADWAY . St. Lovis.6, Me.
WILLIAMS”
> CRUSHERS. <— GB: EMD ERS.) > $ MRE D:D,
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Plant Installation for Cloud Ceramics, Concordia, Kansas
Speedily Erected, Our Construction is Completely Flexible
Adapted to Your Individual Needs
Ask Any of Our Satisfied Customers
CLAY STORAGE SHEOS KILN BUILDINGS MACHINE QUILOINGS STOCK SHEDS GRINOING ROOMS
R. G. VARNER STEEL PRODUCTS, INC.
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DECEMBER. 1957 ue Please sag “I saw If in B&CR”
THE PRIESTER TRUCK CRANE
(PATENTED)
16 units of 500 bricks each unloaded by driver alone, merely pushing buttons.
Unloads off either side. Puts loads on sidewalk where they belong. Requires less than half
the unloading space that other devices need. Handles brick or block unpalleted or palleted
or packaged. Not necessary to move truck. Unloads one, two or all units at one place! No
chipping or breaking bottom bricks or blo¢dks. Gentle handling. For full details, ask for Bulletin
TC53.
BRADNEY MACHINE CO., INC.
Middletown, N. Y.
The trend to color is apparent in all kinds
of building materials including brick
If you've got colored brick in mind, Ferro
can help you make it.
We will work with you in establishing
techniques, processes and quality controls,
to maintain the color uniformity and
the light and heat stability our colors
make possible.
Ferro makes quality colors for all brick
coloring methods — glazing, body staining,
engobe and-sandblasting. Our
know-how comes from years of experience
in all_phases of brickmaking...
in designing and building kilns in
= producing finest inorganic colors
an
: ¢ sty : ) Need help? Write us, describing your
4) fe ~es 4 J } equipment, firing ranges, type of clay and
th 1p ng proposed method of applying color.
We'll go to work on your problem
erRRD FERRO CORPORATION
Color Division
4150 East 56th St., Cleveland 5, Ohio
5309 South District. Boulevard, Los Angeles 22, California
Ferro Enaniels (Canada) Ltd:, Oakville, Onfario, Canada
Foreign plants.in Argentina, AuStralia, Brazil, Chile, England,
France, Holland; Japah, Mexico; South Africa.
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CARNAHAN Continued
are dealing with extremely matt and
comparatively coarse surfaces. There-
fore, we see no good reason for fine
grinding of engobe slips.
In our experiments, we compared
identical engobe formulas which were
prepared by two different methods.
One mix was ground in a one gallon
ball mill for 2 hours. The other mix
was mixed on a Cowles Dissolver,
which is essentially an ultra high
speed mixe!
The fired comparisons of the two
mixes showed the bal! milled specimen
to be a bit more vitrified but to have
the same type of coarse surface as
the other mix. We have prepared a
number of samples on the Cowles Dis-
solver and have had them plant tested
with very satisfactory results. We are
not m the business of selling Cowles
Dissolvers but we do reeommend that
any of you who consider making your
own engobe mixes look into them as a
low cost method of preparing your
engobe slip
Before going on to engobe applica
tion and a discussion of color control,
I would like to digress for a moment
and offer some opihions regarding the
use of engobe coatings. Manufacturers
of glazed brick and structural tile
have striven for close reproduction of
color and the elimination of all sur-
face imperfections. Some of them
have trouble putting their intentions
nto practice, but neverthless thos¢
are the prescribed goals This, of
course, points the way to a high cost
product
Color Variations
After talking with quite a number
brick manufacturers, we learned
that there is a place for a coloring
process which will not give a uniform
shading but which will provide some
color variation. With good plant con-
trol from start to finish, we see no rea-
son why a colored engobe cannot be
made as a straight shade with a mini
mum of color variation, but there are
many existing plants which wish to
make additional colors, such as en-
gobes provide, but which cannot exer-
cise enough plant control to keep a
uniform color. Why not then approach
the market from a realistic viewpoint
and sell the brick with a random color?
Low Cost Process
Another opinion. The brick industry
wants and needs a low cost coloring
process. We feel that colored engobes
will meet this requirement if they are
properly used. We have already talked
about the use of thin coatings. One
feature of any coloring process is the
color variation caused by a variety of
things, but usually caused by firing
variations. I have already recom-
mended selling the brick with random
shading, and th‘ will certainly hold
(Continued on page 63)
DECEMBER, 1957
Pneumatic tires cushion the load over ramp edge.
ROUGH, BUMPY YARD NO OBSTACLE
TO PNEUMATIC -TIRED TRUCK
STACKING 60,000 BRICKS A DAY
Hyster 20 sets kiln faster because of high maneuverability
CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA. The Hydraulic
Press Brick Company plant here has used Hyster lift
trucks exclusively for about ten years, and currently
operates six 2,000 lb. capacity units, equipped with
Bickerstaff forks
Kiln floors and yard terrain are rough, bump) and
sometimes muddy, but prove no obstacle to these
highly stable, pneumatic-tired truc ks.
One truck does all the setting (60,000 bricks per
day) and completes a kiln every two and one-third
days. Kilns are drawn at a rate of 3 000 bricks per
truck per day. As kilns are drawn, cubes are loaded
in cars or on trucks, or placed in future delivery shed.
See for yourself how a Hyster lift truck can’s} eed
up your operation. Ask your Hyster dealer,for a
demonstration toda)
HYSTER
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ae
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better than to ask. But for a Merrier
we should have known
Business the other 364 days,
there’s nothing like the Bickerstaff
Brick Forks... and your
overw helming acceptance of our
products prove this to be a fact.
In appreciation, the entire
Bickerstaff organization
would like to say...
A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL
~, BICKERSTAFF. Ine.
=. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA
62
Tyler Screen Sections
for All Makes
of Screening Machines!
Screen sections of Tyler Woven Wire are fabri-
cated for all makes of vibrating screens in any
mesh or metal. They are made up with hook-strip
or bent-edge construction to suit the machine on
which they are to be used.
Tyler rugged, accurately-applied hook-strips
make possible stretching and maintaining the
screens at drum-head tension, which is essential for
successful screening and long screen life.
THE W. S. TYLER COMPANY
CLEVELAND 14, OHIO
Manufacturers of Woven Wire Screens and Screening Machinery
Canadian Plant—St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Please say
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ENGINEERING ASSOCIATES, INC.
P. O. BOX 5284
Many plants are now profiting thru the advantages of
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
an electrically
{push button)
controlled _hy-
draulic loading
track system.
Reciprocating
carriages move
any number of
kiln past
setting or hack-
ing
operator's
cars
station at
op-
tion. Green stor-
age tracks are
thus loaded
without recourse
to manpower or
tractors.
Loading Track Pusher Power Units
Represented By: Forrest A. Paschal
Box 289, Siler City, N. C.
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in B&CR”’
BRICK & CLAY RECORD
CARNAHAN Continued
the cost down provided there are not
too many which are far enough off-
color to be classified as seconds.
Chipping is one of the biggest ob-
jections to any brick or tile which has
color applied only to the surface. This
certainly is a legitimate complaint,
but, here again, we have an opinion
to offer. In the course of our experi-
ments, we tried applying our thin en-
gobe coatings to every type of brick
surface we could get. These included
smooth face, sanded face, wire cut,
rugg texture, bark texture, and
scratch face. On the smooth and
sanded fates, we were able to produce
smooth surfaces and uniform coloring.
Coating High Spots
However, they looked just like a
glazed brick and, when a chip was
knocked out of one, it very definitely
impaired the looks of the brick. Quite
a different appearance was achieved
on various textured brick. Using the
same thin spray application, we found
that not all of the brick surface was
coated. In effect, we were coating
only the high spots, and the scratches,
cracks, dips, valleys and depressions
were left uncoated.
The result was a brick which, -al-
though not perfectly coated when in-
spected closely, gave an impression of
color when viewed from a distance of
a few feet. In one sense these are im-
perfect brick since they are really a
combination of engobe surface coloring
and background color of the. brick.
In the case of red shale brick the dif-
ference between brick color and en-
gobe color is rather noticeable when
viewed closely, but is undetectable
from a distance. On the buff burning
clay, the difference is practically un-
noticed even at close range.
I should remind you that most of
eur work has been with the pastel
shades and you probably can picture in
your own minds the difference I am
speaking of. Imperfect may be the
proper description for these brick, but
these “built-in” imperfections have
one very desirable function and that
is to render any small chips ur notice-
able. Here then, in our opiniou, is an-
other way to a higher yield of saleable
brick—make a brick in which the
chipped portions blend in with the
general appearance of the brick.
To Be Continued
John E. Chadwick, sales manager
for Koehring Div., Milwaukee, Wis.,
was named vice-president and sales
manager in charge of sales, service
and sales promotion. He _ succeeds
John S. Conway who died recently
after a short illness.
DECEMBER, 1957
TWO SCREENS THAT
PREVENT BLINDING
IN CLAY
PROCESSING
One of the greatest clay screening
problems is that of blinding the
. severe impoirment of production by
Underneath view of Ball Tray Deck sticky, moist clay clogging the holes
in the screen.
Where square openings are less than 5/32"; Simplicity Screens embody electrical heating. The screen
wire is heated to approximately 140°, which prevents blinding, but does NOT DRY THE BED OF THE
MATERIAL. This makes possible operation of the hetting elements for only about 45c¢ per hour. High-
amperage, low-voltage current presents no safety hazard
This new heated screen features an improved method of heat distribution, and easier screen cloth
replacement—none of the heating elements are disturbed when changing cloth. Elimination of
screen cloth whip results in longer cloth life.
Where screening needs require screen cloth with square openings of 5/32" or over, Simplicity Ball
Tray Screens employ bouncing rubber balls, trapped between the screen cloth and a retaining cloth
Vibration of the screen agitates the rubber balls, which knocks clay loose from the wires no matter
how wet the clay may be. Eliminate your clay screening problems permanently with Simplicity Heated
or Ball-Type Screens. Both types have proven their economy and dependability in tough applications
throughout the country
For ail details on these screens and other Simplicity conveying, screening or feeding equipment, write
us today.
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1. Eliminates FIRE HAZARDS W.
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ScANDURA P.V.C. coated conveyor belting.
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Developed and tested by our parent company in the United
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BOSTON * PLANT: CHARLOTTE 1, N. C. CLEVELAND
HAND PADS y : ss ‘ WA N T COLORI
MITTENS .
GLOVES and more colored glaze brick. With a mod-
est investment, you can profit from this
Modern architectural design calls for more
growing trend. By facing your common
PROTECT brick with colorful glaze, you can get
premium prices for it.
WO " K E RS . HAN DS ! Drakenfeld offers You practical help in solv-
ing color application problems. Our ex-
HEAVY SPLIT-COWHIDE HAND PAD NO. 308, TIE BACK perienced technologists and the most mod-
$7.20 PER DOZEN PAIRS . sae
ern color research and production facilities
are ready to serve you. We invite your
inquiry.
Avoid costly injuries to the hands of your workers by
giving them the protection they need—Tufhorse gloves,
hand pads or mittens. Made of the finest cowhide, they
are flexible and comfortable to wear. CALL ON
ORDER SAMPLE PAIRS AT “PER-DOZEN” PRICES “D J te f,
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(All F.0.8. Des Moines)
Executive Offices: 45 Park Place, New York 7, N. Y.
Nome- Factory and Laboratories: Washingten, Pa.
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ES : Pacific Coast Agents:
DES MOINES, lOWA BRAUN CORPORATION, LOS ANGELES 54, California
BRAUN-KNECHT-HEIMANN COMPANY, SAN FRANCISCO 19, California
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Stuntz, Forsyth applications. Similarly, certain new Other appointments announced for
include A. A.
i -efractories have applications in mar- the new organization
Appointed by B&W refractories have applic 1 mi ' ;
PP y kets where the Globar Division Turner, Manager Refractories Sales;
Robert P. Stuntz has been appointed supplies materials. D. S. Bowman, Manager Globar and
eerag re by ewer of The Bab- Furthermore, projects being devel- Electronic Sales; H. M. Killmar, Man-
cock & Wilcox Company’s Refractories oped in the Research and Develop- ager Perth Amboy Plant; A. L. Don-
Sven, = reported today by ment Division of the Company have nenwirth, Manager #alconer Plant;
James E. Brinckerhoff, vice president implications for all three divisions. J. W. Albright, Manager Globar Plant;
Stuntz will make his headquarters “ These and other considerations studjed R. C. Straka, Manager Latrobe Seals
the company 8 executive offices in New for some time led to the conclusion Plant: R. Vap Der Beck, Manager
York . , that the three closely related divisions Latrobe Ceramic Plant; E. H. Fritz,
Succeeding Stuntz as manager of the should be integrated into one Division. Assistant to General Manager of Op
Division's ( hicago district sales offi : The plant at Perth Amboy, N. J., erations; C. P. Clapp, Manager of
is Robert H. Forsyth, it was reported will specialize in heavy duty super re- Manufacturing; J. M. Smith, Manager
by Mark J. Terman, sales manager for fractories; Falconer, N. Y.. in fused Marketing Department; O. R. Stach
the division cast refractories; Latrobe in smalle1 Manager Product Engineering
super refractory parts, ceramic spe Branch; E. F. Grimm, Division Con
Mavheetorssugnadir tat cialties and electronic seals and com troller Accounting Branch; and J. S.
¢ ponents; and Globar plant at Niagara Catapano, Manager Personnel Branch
General Clinton F Robinson, Presi Falls will manufacture heating ele The reorganization will become ef
dent of The Carborundum Company, ments and resistors fective January 1, 1958
announced that the Company's Stupa-
koff Division at Latrobe, Pa., Globar
Division at Niagara Falls, N. Y., and UNIVERSAL “UNILEC”’ SCREENS
tefractories Division at Perth Amboy,
N. J., will be integrated into one divi- CHOSEN FOR ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S
yn, named the Refractories Division.
All personnel, plants and activities, ex- MOST MODERN & EFFICIENT NEW CLAY PLANTS,
cept the Stupalox sintered oxide cut-
ting tool project formerly at _ the
Stupakoff Division will be combined CLOUD CERAMICS AT CONCORDIA, KANSAS
in the newly established Refractories
Division
Boyd M. Johnson, vice president of
the company, was named General Man
ager of the new division. Robert A.
Barr was appointed Assistant General
Manager in Charge of Sales and A. L.
Leo-Wolf was made Assistant General
Manager in Charge of Operations.
Johnsen, Barr and Leo-Wolf were
formerly General Managers of the Re
fractories, Stupakoff and Globar Divi-
sions respectively which are now
merged into the new, more diversified
Refractories Division.
The Stupalox project has been as-
signed to the New Products Branch
of the Research and Development Divi-
sion. E. Kibbitt, Project Manager, will
réport to D. G. Sturges, Manager of
the New Products Branch.
Commenting: on the integration of
the three Divisions into one, Robin-
son said—“This new, mérged Division
will enable the Company to give bat-
ter service to its customers. in closely
related markets by more effective use
of “- — of pp of Above: Type “M” 42x96” single-deck Universal
capable emplovees, diversified equip- “ - ‘
wate aa = facilities in the Pc high-frequency Vibrating Screens with dual-UNILEC
separate Divisions. Fhe new Division heating equipment.
is designed not only for more effectiye
production and sale of current inter-
volated ‘peeaiiet! linea bat: alae clari. Combining the efficiency and reliability of Univer-
fies the proper assignment of certain sal Screens with Unilec Heating System assures the
new product lines that will be ‘forth- °
coming from the Research and Devel- best return on such investments.
opment Division of the Company.” ? " :
Robinson said the markets form Hundreds of Universal Screens now in service can
Globs esistors 1d Stupak P o ° ° ° ° °
a or tha ges, Pe A eEiastey _— easily be fitted with Unilec Heating. Get the facts
much the same. The markets for re- before you invest.
fractories and Globar heating elementse
were in many instances elosely related. Write today for free catalog +150
Certain Stupakoff products, such as
Stupalith®, had refractory applica-
tions. New developments in the Stupa- UNIVERSAL VIBRATING SCREEN COMPANY
koff Division, such as high alumina for
electronic use, have many refractory RACINE, WISCONSIN
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Samples obtained from depths up to
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LETTERS continued
Pipe Process Used?
Editor, Brick & CLAY REecorp—We
are the manufacturer of salt glazing
vitrified clay sewer pipe in 10” and
12”, and these are made in a sewer
pipe auger vertical press by the stiff
mud process in the de-air system.
Other rival manufacturers use the
methods of manufacturing cement
pipe, known as the dry methods, for
the production of glazed vitrified sew-
er pipe
In the dry method use, a type of
machine is used which has a revolv
ing head which moves up and down
inside the shell or form for the outer
surface of the pipe, an inner shell
being required for this class of ma-
chine
In this dry method, a mixture of
feldspar, shale and Portland cement
(or Plaster of Paris or sodium sili-
cate) is employed which contains only
enough water (7 to 10°) to leave
web like markings on the surface of
the special concrete when the forms
are removed and to ball up when
pressed in the hand
The pipe produced on these ma-
chines, which are all used with a dry
mix so as to permit the removal of
the mold in the natural dryers as
soon as the machine work is finished
The pipe are generally placed by 48
hours in the natural dryer and
hardened by hydraulic chemical re-
action of the cement and plaster
When the pipe is hardened it is glazed
with a slip glaze and placed in the
tunnel kiln car and burned.
I inquire about this sewer pipe
manufacturing on the new dry pro-
cess: Is this process used in the
USA; where is the process used;
what specifications cover this ware;
where can I read literature for this
purpose; the most important question,
“Can the dry process glazed pipe sub-
stitute to the salt glazing (or glazed)
pipe in the USA; if it cannot be sub-
stituted do you tell me the reason?
Roberto Bozzolo,
Industria Ceramica
Osvaldo Cruz 5272
Camino Maldonado &
Cuchilla Grande
Montevideo, Uruguay
Ed. Note We've given an answer to
this letter to Mr. Bozzolo who, by the
way, 8 one of many fore wn subscrib-
ers to BCR. Do any of our clay pipe
readers have any comments to add?
Oldest Plant (Final?)
Editor, Brick & CLay Recorp—We
wish to call your attention to an er-
ror in the article referring to the age
DECEMBER, 1957
of our Company as published in the business, we might call attention to
October issue. You state that our ours started in 1844 by my grand-
business was started in 1884 instead father. Being the youngest of seven
of 1844 as we wrote ... If we are children, I entered act vely into the
not requesting too much, we would business in February, 1902 on the
appreciate being quoted verbatim death of my oldest brother. Our busi-
L. Perry West nese is at present and always has
West Bros. Brick Co . ba ed one h endre l - ro nt by
Washington, D. C : t heirs of the founder.
Ed. Note Sorry for the scrambled ‘ f yy, our origu al p tblishing of
date. Here's West's original letter est’ compar i’8 age was based not
in fulls “Noting some interest in the on lé ) letter, but ipon an ear
identity of the oldest operating brick
?
better
LUDLOW-SAYLOR makes its own wire crimping dies
to insure precision weaving and dimensional stability
No guesswork here! To produce L-S crimp-
ing dies requires engineering knowledge of
all physical and chemical characteristics of
many kinds of wire, production know-how,
skillful tool making plus critical supervision.
Such careful met hods are typical of Ludlow-
Saylor manufacturing.
That is why L-S Wire Cloth and Screens
are the finest made for every sizing, straining,
filtering operation. They are tougher, strong-
er, more rigid—have better resistance to
abrasion, distortion, vibration, heat and
high pressure. Yet they cost no more than
ordinary screens or cloth.
immediate Shipment of most weaves and sizes
Write for Condensed Screen Reference Catalog
ludiow Saylor
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604 S. Newstead Ave. + St. Lovis 10, Mo.
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Denver, 1530 Carr St. WEST COAST SUBSIDIARY: Los Angeles,
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made from Block
produced
on a Besser
VIBRAPAC
and Split on a
BES-STONE
Block
Splitter
Yes—split block is beautiful if it's made right, using a
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that gives you NEW PROFIT OPPORTUNITIES plus
SATISFIED CUSTOMERS. Get all the facts from your
nearby Besser Representative,
‘BESSER COMPANY
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or write for literature to:
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to Chase.
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ANNUAL EDITORIAL INDEX - 1957
A
Acme Brick Bennett Piant Setting Record
for Output, Economy Jan
Additives, How Des Moines Uses Additive A
to Make Good Operation Better Nov
Alton Brick, Pit Equipment, Pug Mill improves
Operation June
American Ceramic Society
Expect 1,800 to Attend Dallas
Convention Apr
See Exciting Future for Ceramics June
AmVit Applies Plastisol, How June
Annual Clay Pipe Section (See NCPMI)
Annual Refractories Section (See Refractories
Atomic Bomb Test
Brick School Classroom
Withstands Atomic Blast Aug
Furnace, Bomb Test Feetured
at SCPRF Aug
Ba Test, Procedure in Making Drying Ba
Test Nov
Bark Texturing Machine Patented Apr
Belting
Follow These Tips for Longer Belt Life. . Feb
New “Hot'’ Belt Gives Longer Life
for LW
Bennett Plant Setting Record for
Economy
Black Coring, Research You Can
in Your Plant
Brainstorming
How to Get Brainstorms Every Day
What's This Brainstorming Al! About?
Brick & Clay Record
(See “Ten Year Program
Built-ins, This Year Sel! the Built-ins
Burners Changed by Phoenix to Get
Ware, Less Rejects
c
Car Lubricant for Kiln Car Apr
Carter-Waters Corp
Carter-Waters Doubles Capacity to Meet
Heavy Demand for Haydite July
Production Doubled
Since Plant Opened June
Ceramics
Diagnose and Solve Your
Glaze Problems May
Refractories Used in Ceramic
Manufacture Jan
Chambers’ First Hundred Years Jan
Charleston Clay Products Builds Kiln Sub
structure of Refractory Concrete Nov
Cinder Concrete Products, Plant Rebuilt for
Switch to Clay Output June
Clay Blogging as Related to Product Quality
ontrol Jan
Clay Block Houses
Cheaper Tha rame? May
Clayburn Plant Mickages All Agricultural
Tile Jan
Clay Pipe Plant, $! Million-Gegins
Soon May
Clay Pipe Institute Serving the West May
Clay Products Association
Serving the Midwest May
Clay Sewer Pipe Association
Serving the East May
Clay Products Reports
Be a Self-Starter Mar
$15 Billion is Market or Home
Improvements Nov
Brick Salesman, Please Note Apr
De We Need a Luxury Product? Aug
Faith in Us Nov
Form Not Function Sept
Hold the Price Line June
Let's Help the CFLI Feb
Let's Test Paving Block, Too Mar
Let's Think Big in Building Feb
Passing Points on Promotion Sept
Predictions True Apr
Research — Our Right Arm Feb
Second Home Buyers Apr
Sell the Homes Apr
What's Proper Promotion? Feb
What's Proper Promotion? June
Who are You Kiddina? Aua
What's Proper Promotion? Feb
Clemson Meet Discusses Plant of Future Oct
Cloud Ceramics Double Production De
Colors
How Columbia 8B & T Combines Clays
for Colors Aug
How Columbia 8 & T Combines Clays
for Colors
DECEMBER, 1957
How Columbia 8 & T Combines Clays
for Colors Cc
How You Can Use It — And What The
Problems Are
Meeting Discusses Colors For Clay Nov
Columbia Brick & Tile
Combines Clays for Colors
Combines Clays for Colors
Combines Ciays for Colors
Pug Mill, Lift Trucks at Columbia
Community, Relation of A Company
A Community
Concrete, Complete Kiln Substructure
Built of Refractory Concrete
Corona $5 Million Plant
Nearly Complete
Dallas Convention Expects |,800
To Attend
Depletion
Condensed History of Depletion
Court Refuses Depletion Review
Court Reverses Only Government
Depletion Decision
We're Winning the Big Fight
Des Moines Clay Co
How Des Moines Uses Additive A
To Make Good Operations Better Nov
Hundred Pack Meets Des Moines
Needs Apr
Dickey PVC, Jointed Pipe Pays for itself June
Drying
Dryers Lead Modernization
at Standard Sept
New Presses, Dryers at Vandalia June
New Dryer, Research Facilities
at Laclede
Proceedure in Making Drying Bal! Test
Tunnel Kiln. Dryer, New Fulton
Features
Dunwody (Kenneth We're Winning
the Big Fight
E
ESCA
ESCA Members Tour Shalite Plant Sept
Exciting Growth’ Predicted by ECSA Apr
Editorials
Attend Sales Meetings De
Business Jitters? The Facts
Say Otherwise Apr
Can You Handle 70% More Business? Jan
Costs — No Object? Feb
Fire Prevention A Year-Round Job Oct
It's Downright Foolish Sept
Let's Get to Work
on @ 22 Billion Market July
Now for the Next Job! Nov
Salesmen or Errand Boys? Aug
Size, Color, Newness for Sales Punch May
The Sixty-Four Million Dallar
Give-Away Mar
Warning to Makers of Glazed Brick June
Efflorescence, Research You Can Put to Use
in Your Plant Sept
Engineers. How to Recruit Technical Help
You Need
Epoxy Adhesive Speeds Pipe Jointing
Without Rejects
Evans. Colman & Evans, All Agricultural
Tile Packaged at Clayburn
Evens & Howard, New Extrusion
Part of $360,000 Program
Exhibits, How to Develop Extra Benefits
from Home Shows Sept
F
Firina
10 000 Extra Brick Per Day
From New 320 Tunnel Kiln
Get Maximum Production
From Your Tunnel
How Does Warren Fire Seven Extra
Cars A Day?
Fiuorspar Controls Vanadium Staining
Fox John M
How Do You Measure Up?
G
General Refractories
General Adds Equipment
For more Efficiency
How Does Warren Fire Seven Extra
Cars A Day?
Gladding, McBean
$5 Million Corona Plant
Nearly Complete June
New Shipping Method Cuts Pipe Breakage
Loss to $20 Per Car July
Gray, Briscoe B.. Get Maximum Production
From Your Tunnel Feb
Green Brier Meeting, SCP Dex
Grinding
100,000 Grinding Plant Ups Midland
Capacity 50%
One-Man Contro! of Grinding
At Wellsville June
H
Moorhead Moves to Mechanica
Handling June
Rube Goldberg’ Power Transfer Units Solve
Handling Problems For Golden Brick Jan
Harbison
How fe
June
New Fulton
Oldest and Largest
Pot Manufacturer
Highway Program, Clay Products Vital
to Highway Program
Press, New Brick Big Seller
Hydraulic Press
I
nois Clay Pre s, Grundite Product
Up 50 pct
Insulating Brick
of Fuel Cost
nterstate, 10000 Extra Brick Per Day
m New 320 Tunnel Kiln
J
(President) 50 Years with Sayre
Fisher Brick Co Mar
K
Kasten Brothers Brick, New Storage Shed
Packaging at Kasten June
Kelsey-Ferguson, New Packaging Method
Saves $100,000 Annually Sept
Kilns
Complete Substructure Built of Refractory
Concrete Nov
New Kiln, Equipment & Products
at Walsh June
What Type Kiln Car Lubricant? Apr
Knauft Reports
Knauft Reports on European Trip
at TRI Meet Aug
Knauft's Report on European Methods
of Refractories Manufacture Dec
Knoxville Meet, ECSA Members Tour
Shalite Plant Sept
Kraftile Co. Develops Quality Control Oct
L
Laclede-Christy's New Dryer, Research
Facilities Juns
Lanae (Jim), Are We Selling
The Right Way? Feb
Leftwich Process, Minimum Personne! Needed
by Denie & Sons Aor
Lelite Plant Operates on Waste Heat Mar
Liqghtweiaht Aggregate
Carter-Waters Doubles Capacity to Meet
Heavy Demand for Haydite July
Clav Block Houses
Cheaper Than Frame? May
Exciting Growth’ Predicted by ECSA Apr
Minimum Personne! Needed by
Denie & Sons Apr
New “Hot'’ Belt Gives Longer Life
for LW Nov
Pioneer Lelite Plant Operates
on Waste Heat Mar
Plant Rebuilt For Switch
to Clay Outout June
Sayre & Fisher's Kev to Future Success Mar
Stiles Turns Overburden Into Profit Jan
Virqginia'’s First LW Plant Produces
420 Tons Daily Feb
Lightweight Furnace, Bomb Test
Featured at SCPRF Aug
Logan Clay Products
Logan Converts 2! Periodics
to Gas Firing July
Logan's New Pack Increases Handling, Load
ing Efficiency 800% Doubles Storage
Capacity June
co °
an Save 2!
M
Management, How Do You
Measure Up? Feb
Martinsville Brick Co. Remodeled Completely
Plans Still More June
Merchandising
Brick Helps Homes in St. Louis Mar
Minneapolis Proves Brick Houses
Do Sell Better Apr
This Year, Sell The Built-ins of Brick Mar
What Are You Doing To Help Us Sell
Our Homes? Mar
Mexico Refractories Co.. Fifth Tunnel
New Rotary June
Midiand Brick & Tile
100,000 Grinding Plant Ups Midland
Capacity 50% June
Midland Modernizes; Output up 50% July
Minneapolis Proves rick Houses
Do Sell Better
Missouri Special Section
General Adds Equipment
For More Efficiency
100,000 Grinding Plant Ups Midland
Capacity 50%
Million-A-Year to Improve Green
Facilities
Millions For Medernization
Moorhead Moves to Mechan
Handling
New Brick Biq Seller
For Hydrauli Press
New Dryer, Research Facilitic
at Laclede
New Extrusion Part of $340.00
E & H Program
New Kiln. Equipment & Prod
at Walsh
New Periodics at United-Harrisonville
New Plant Unit to Double
Farber Output
New Presses, Drvers ot Vandalia
New Storage Shed, Packaging
A? Kasten
One-M*n Control! of Grinding
at Wellsville
Production Doubled
Since Plant Opened
Pua Mill. Lift Trucks at Columbia
School Successfully Trains Men
for Incustry June
Tunne! Kiln, Dryer, New Fulton
Features June
Tunnel Modernization for H. W
Vandalia June
United-Vale Converts Al! Forks
fo LP June
Moorhead Brick & Tile Moves to Mechanica
Hend'ina June
Moss Lightweioht Aaqregate, Minimum
Personnel Needed
by Denie and Sons Apr
N
NAHB, Research Home Shews Onpportunities
for Clay, Need for Research, Product
Development July
NCPMI!
Clay Pipe Institute Serving the West May
Clay Products Association
Serving the Midwest May
Clay Sewer Pioe Association
Serving the Eact May
National Clay Pioe Manufacturers Inc
Progrees Through Cooperation May
Phoenix Meetina Dec
Research Imoroves
An Age-Old Product May
Sanitary Eraineering Service
Serving the Sovth May
New Jersev Shale Rrick & Tile Package
Saves Labor, Cuts Costs Aug
North American Refrectories Co
How to Use Electrically Heated
Screens
New Plant Unit to Double
Farber Output
°
Ochs, A. C., Brick & Tile
How Och« Makes Their Hundred Pack Oct
Modern Plant. New Kiln
Uns Och« Production May
Onondaga Brick Corp.. New “Hot” Belt
Gives Longer Life for LW Nov
P
Pacific Clav Products
Epoxy Adhesive Speeds Pipe Jointing
Without Reiects July
Procedure in Making Drying Ball Test Nov
Packaging ’
How Ochs Makes Their Hundred Pack Oct
Hundred Pack Meets
Des Mo'nes Needs Ap
Loaan's New Pack Increases Handling, Load
ing Efficiency 800% Doubles Storage
Capacity June
20 Minutes Unloading Time for Tile Jan
New Packaging Method Saves $100,000
Annually Sept
New Shipping Method Cuts Pipe Breakage
Loss to $20 Per Car July
New Storage Shed, Packagain
at Kasten June
70
Package Saves Labor, Cuts Costs
New Jersey Aug
House, All Brick Put Up in
Hours Oct
Paving Block Tested Mar
Phoenix Changes Burners to Get Better Ware,
Less Rejects Apr
Pipe Jointing
Epoxy Adhesive Speeds Pipe Jointing
Without Rejects July
Jointed Pipe Pays for Itself June
Plant of the Future Discussed
at Clemson Meet Oct
Plant Operators Forum Discusses Color
for Clay Nov
Plant Stories
Acme Brick Co Jan
Alton Brick Co June
Carter-Waters Corp July
Clay City Pipe Co May
Cloud Ceramics Dec
Columbia Brick & Tile Co Sept
Des Moines Clay Co Nov
Evans, Coleman & Evans Co Jan
General Refractories Co June
Gladdina. McBean & Co June
Golden Brick Co Jan
Green, A. P.. Fire Brick Co June
Harbison-Walker Refractories
Hews, A. H. & Co Apr
illinois Clay Products Co Mar
Kasten Brothers Brick Co
Kelsev-Ferguson Brick C
Kraftile Co Oct
Lactede-Christy Div
Lehigh Materials Co Mar
Logan Clay Products Co
Martinsville Brick Co June
Mexico Refractories Co
Midland Brick & Tile Co
Moorhead Brick & Tile Co
New Jersey Shale Brick & Tile Corp
North American Refrectories Co
Ochs, A. C., Brick & Tile Co
Onondaasa Brick Co
Pacific Clay Products
Poston Brick & Concrete Products Co
Roanoke-Webster Brick Co
Savre & Fischer Brick Co
Sheffield Brick & Tile Co
Southern Brick & Tile Co
Stendard Brick Co
Stiles & Sons Brick Co
United Brick & Tile Co
Walsh Refractories Co
Wellsville Fire Brick Co
Plastiso
How AmVit Applies Plastisol
What Are Thev? How Are They Used?
What Can They Do For You? May
Platt (Jim). This Year, Sel! The Built-iIns
of Brick Mar
Poston Brick & Concrete Products Co., Clay
Block Houses Cheaper Than Frame May
Quality Control
Blending of Clays as Related
to Product Ouslity Control
How Kraftile Developed Quality
Control
e
Refractories
Complete Kiln Substructure Built
of Refractory Concrete Nov
Grundite Production Up 50 Pct Mar
How Does Warren Fire Seven Extra Cars
A Day? Feb
Knauft's Report on — European Method« of
Refractories Manufscture ct
Open Hearth Meet Reports
on Refractories May
Record 178 Attend TRI Youngstown
Meetina Apr
Refractories Used
in Ceramic Manufacture Jan
Sayre & Fisher's Key to Future Success _ Mar
The Backhone of Modern Industry Jan
Region 4, This Year, Sell The Built-ins
of Brick Mar
Region 5, Sales Meeting. What Are You Doing
To Help Us Sell Our Homes? Mar.
Roanoke-Webster Brick Co. Virainia's First
LW Plant Produces 420 Ton Dally Feb.
R R Car. New Shippina Method Cuts Pipe
Breakage Loss to $20 Per Car July
S
Sanitary Engineering Service Serving
the South May
Sevre & Fisher
President Junker's 50 Years With Sayre
& Fisher Brick Co Mar
Savre & Fisher's Key to Future
Success Mar
Schools
School Successfully Trains Men
for Industry June
Schools-Where to Now? Aug.
SCPI
Brick He'ns Sell Homes in St. Louis Mar.
Minneapolis Proves Brick Houses
Do Sell Better Apr.
1.05 Million Starts — Higher Priced Houses
Construction At High Level — Brick
Jan
Considering Solar Screen
Promotion Mar
What Are You Doing To Help Us
Our Homes? Mar
The Brick in a House Put up
in 8, Hours! Oct
Brick Schoo! Classroom Withstands
Atomic Blast Aug
Furnace, Bomb Test Featured
at SCPRE Aug
New SCPRF Officers Elected Jan
Research You Can Put to Use
in Your Plant Sept
SCR Survival House Can Protect Public
From Disaster
Screens, How to Use Electrically
Screens
Scumming, Research You Can Put
in Your Plant
Shalite Plant Has Tour
for ECSA Members
Sheffield 8 & T. Insulatina Brick
Can Save 21% of Fuel Cost
Silica Brick Dip Eliminates out
Southern Brick & Tile Asociation
Goodyear Says ‘Bring “Installation Costs
Down’ July
Standard Brick Co.'s Dryers
Lead Modernization Sept
Stiles & Son Brick Co. Turns Overburden
Into Profit
T
Tandem Sintering Hearths, Plant Rebuilt
for Switch to Clay Output
Tax, Decisions That Affect Your
Ten Year Program — Brick
A Ten Year Proaram Desiane
Profit. Sales Production te
The Clay Products Industry
Brick Schoo! Classroom
Withstands Atomic Blast Aug
Brick Salesman Please Note Aor
Clay Products — Can Supply The Demands
of Builders Oct
Hundred Pack
Meets Des Moines Need Aor
i Brick Houses
an
New Packaging Method Saves $100.000
Annually Sept
Our Goal for The Future Oct
Packanre Saves Labor, Cuts Costs
At New Jercev Aug
The Modern Builder What Does He Want
in Todew's Mertot? Oct
The Problems We'll Fece —
And How to Solve Them Oct
This Year Sell The Bu'lt-te« of Brick Mar
Sevre & Fisher's Key to Future
Success
Tile Packaging
All Aecricultural Tile Packaged
at Clayburn Jan
20 Minute Unioading Time for Tile Jan
TRI
How to Use Electrically Heated
Screens Sept
Knauft Reports on European Trip
Meet Aug
178 Attend Youngstown
Meeting Apr.
Relation of A Company and
A Community
Tunnel Kiln
10,000 Extra Brick Per Day From New 320
Tunnel Kiln Feb
Get Maximum Production
From Your Tunnel Feb
Modern Plant, New Kiln Up Ochs
Production May
Tunnel Kiln, Dryer, New Fulton
Features June
Tunnel Modernization for H. W.,
Vandalia June
Turbine Type Mixer July
U
United Brick & Tile
New Periodic at United-Harrisonville June
United-Vale Converts All im to LP June
University of Missouri Succe lly Trains Men
for Industry June
v
Vanadium Staining Controlled
by Fluorspar
Mar
Walsh Refractories
New Kiln, Equipment and , SEE
48
39
4
4!
8
Se
65
55
55
113
66
7%
62
57
53
so*
5!
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9
100
88
60
18
Nov &:
22
56
48
66
58
71
66
65
68
at Walsh June53
New Presses, Dryers at Vandalia June
Warren Fires Seven Extra Cars A Day Feb.
Waste Heat Pioneer Lelite Plant Operates
on Waste Heat Mar.
Wellsville Fire Brick, One-Man Control
of Grinding
Y
Youngstown Meeting, TR!
63
77
57
BRICK & CLAY RECORD
————INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
The Demand Is Increasing For
GRAY BRICK and RICHER DARK RED SHADES
M4
“Nationa. Mlancanest
WE CAN DELIVER’...
* SOFT MUD BRICK * PUGMILLS
MACHINERY * ROLL CRUSHERS
* DISINTEGRATORS * GRANULATORS
* WINDING DRUMS * SAND DRYERS
* MOULD SANDERS
Flashes Red
Clays to Dark
Reds, Blacks
and Gun Metal
Shades
Turn Buff and
Light Clays
Gray
Write for information.
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NATIONAL PAINT & MANGANESE CO.
Lynchburg, Virginia
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DECEMBER, 1957
MANUFACTURING
IMMEDIATE
THIS MEANS
*POTTS ENGINEERING AND
FACILITIES ARE AVAILABLE FOR
PROCESSING OF YOUR ORDER
MINIMUM DELIVERY TIME
WRITE, WIRE, OR TELEPHONE FOR
COMPLETE DETAILS
OR
ASK ANY OF OUR SATISFIED CUSTOMERS
REMEMBER
POTTS—FOR QUALITY CLAY MACHINERY
ESTABLISHED 1885
C. & G. POTTS & CO.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
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address to be counted os port of the ad Minimum
cherge $2.00 each insertion
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DISPLAY-BOX TYPE ADS
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secutive issues 12 per ach per nsertion
retroactive odjustment
An inch is measured vertically on one column, 24"
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Display
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BRICK and CLAY RECORD
5 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago 3
WANTED — POSITION
Structural Clay manufacturer producing a full
line of Face Brick and Facing Tile has open-
ings for experienced salesmen in Baltimore
Washington, Richmond, Norfolk area and also
Cleveland area. Would consider young archi-
tectural engineering graduate without experi-
ence Address XB-5, care of Brick & Clay
R j
FOR SALE—USED EQUIPMENT
Die
Sr
Rotar
WANTED A ‘
R. C. STANHOPE, INC
60 E. 42nd St New York 17, N. Y
MACHINERY BARGAINS
DRY PRESS Boyd Model BB including 10
H.P. Motor and Drive
COMBINED MACHINE STEEL No. 6,
Steele and American De-Airing Combined
Machines. International 470
BRICK CUTTERS Steele and Freese Auto-
matic
SEWER PIPE PRESSES Pearne Lacy Hy-
draulic including dies 6 to 15”, Tappin
Rice including dies 8 to 24”
FERNHOLTZ MACHIPERY CO.
8468 B Melrose Place
Les, Angeles 46, California
FOR SALE Model BB Boyd Dry in ex-
cellent ondition together with set of press
boxes to make complete lines of fire brick
shapes, $9,000.00. Union Mining Co 2306 lat
National Bank Bldg., Pittsburgh 22, Pa
Pulleys of various size, face and b
Electric Motors, various H.P # speeds
Brewer Heavy Duty Cont % Roll Crusher
Hoisting Drum for pulling up cags
Steele No
Mor Driven Pro
: >
Kiln Cooling Fans, 48 and 24”
pellers
Clay & rage Shed s ‘ i " € x ”
200° Clay Storage Shed Conveyor 0”. motor driven
Towmotor 40002 cap with Bickerstaff fork
a ally new
Address inquiries tg GRANT BRICK WORKS
°° 2
Weldon, Nc
DRYER CARS—S e deck
DRY PAN—Clearf 1 i
TRANSFER CAR—Batt powered
CRUSHER-—Melanahan 18” x 24
BRICK & TILE MACHINE Char
a reels
Type 38
REPRESS—B ( rebuilt
APRON FEEDER—24
BALL MILLS—*#* « 8’, f
PALLET CARS with pa
MIXERS—Si n & ¢
NEW & USED it
and clay industr
HERMAN A. HALL
Wyomissing, Pa. FRanklin 24310
GENERAL MANAGER OR SUPERINTEND
ENT \irty year experience in productior
and marketing common brick, face brick and
Available at once Address
BRICK & CLAY RECORD
GENERAL MANAGER Mar
able {f managing structur
Plant or re brick and refractory plant
desires j either type plant
XB-2, « rick & Clay Record
WANTED—HELP
CERAMIC ENGINEER--B.S. Degree, age 34
experience in research, develo;
ment, quality control and plant work in re
fractories and sewer pipe. Presently employed
Address XRB-4 ure of
Seven year
but desires change
Brick & Clay Record
WANTED-Ceramist to head research and de
velopment work on specialty refractories
Good salary with special incentive plan. Previ
ous experience preferred Eastern Seaboard
location Address XB-1, care of Brick & Clay
Record
rye
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Brook l t stive low
Mode " ® Enwine
onable
FOR SALE
mine type
10-inch gauge. Exce
Provo Brick & Til p Provo
Upah
FOR SALE—Steele No, 18 Automatic Side Cuf
Cutter, right hand, equiped with tandard
brick reel and measuring table; 10” belt. Good
second-hand condition Price .6800.00, loaded
on car or truck ourlant Quaker Sales Cor
poration, Johnstown, Pa
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FOR
SALE
New 14 gauge galvanized
steel pallets no. 12—sizes
x a”
LA
x 31” and 934”
still in original shipping
packages.
OHIO FIRE
BRICK COMPANY
Phone 52
Oak Hill, Ohio
FOR SALE
BRICK MACHINES—All types
PUG MILLS—Single & Double Shaft
GRANULATOR—Freese P16. Chambers No. 51
AUTOMATIC CUTTERS—Steele 18. American 498
Freese C-20 & C-25. E Cutte
HAND CUTTERS—Steele 50 Board Deliv
WX
7
16 CU. FT. PATTERSON-KELLEY
TWIN SHELL BLENDER
DRY PRESS 4 MOULD—Bopd “Special
DRY PANS T & 9
HAMMER MILLS Jeffrey 20x24, 36x42, 8x15
Miller 17”
SMOOTH ROLLS—Chambers x30 18x24"
CONICAL ROLLS—Brewer 32”, Chambers 32°
DISINTERGATORS Chambers 16%, 24°, Steele
~~” 18"
JAW CRUSHERS—15 x 24, 20 4 4, 20 x 36, 30
36, 56” x 72”
PULVERIZERS-—-Williams ¢ Dust Mill
ROTARY DKVYERS & KILNS
DRY MIXERS—Lancaster EBG-3, FAG-3, EAG-4
Clearfield 2610
Hummer 3 «5 & 4 5 Single
Selecto 3 x 6. Slip Lawns, 42”
Cedar Rapids
REPRESS 2-MOULD—Bonnot Special’ & Inter
national Victor
CLAY FREEDERS—Dise 60”, Steele Even
Reciprocating )
DRYER CARS—2 al k 24” gauge
TURNTABLES—72” Transfer Cars
SIDE DUMP CARS—2 yd. 36” gauge. 1 yd
PEBBLE MIIJS--30 x 42". 4 « 5°. 6 s 8. Hard
inge 7° or 48”. 4° 16
BALL MILIA—Hardinge 6° «x 22”
x 48”, 2° = 8”. 5’ x 21’ Tube Mill
STEEL PALLETS—10 x 24”, 10 x 41”
SLIP PUMPS—2 & 4 Cylinder
FILTER PRESSES—13, 32, 60. TO Leaf
BAGGCER PRESSES— 22 Crossiey with Dies
KILNS—Decorating, high Fire Glass. & Lehr
ROBERT Lt. CLARE
PERTH AMBOY, N./ Phone Hillerest 2-006)
24”
6’
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CRUSHERS, JAW--7% x 13 Champion, 20 x 4
Farrel, 15 x 24 Traylor & 15 x 24 Diamond
Primary portabl plant "
CRUSHERS, ROLL—24 x 24 LB 30 x 30
Jeffrey single, 18 x 24, 30 x 16 smooth, 18 x
lé 4x 12, 24 x 18, 30 x 16 Disintegrating
DRY PANS—7 American, 9° Bonnot, % Steven
son, w/motor drives
SCREENS—3 x 5 (1) Universal (new), 3 x 5
(ly & 3x 10 (2) Tyler Hummer, 3 x 10 (2)
i77x 10 (2) Cedar Rapids, 4 x 20 Rotary,
5 x 12 (2) Robins eliptex
HAMMER MILLS—M®0 Quaker City (7% HP)
new, Mikro 2 Sl (10 HP),. Williams AKB
} HP), Jeffrey 36 x 42 (125 HP), Penna
SXT1I3 (350 HP synchronous)
PUG MUILLS—?7’ Steele, 9’ Freese, 10’ Chambers
joubl@ shaft, 15’ Granulatorg Fretse & Chambers
BRICK MACHINES—Brewer 9By International
170, Bonnot 330 & Bonnot de-airing 18”
Auger iw ew spare parts)
CUTTERS Automatic Freese C20 C25,
18 0” belt) Steele 14B w/14” Belt, 2
DRYER CARS
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LAWLER COMPANY
Metuchen, N. J Liberty 9-0245
R. H. SQUIRE
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New Yor«w 14. N. Y
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PITTSBURGH
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for Over 40 Years
FOR SALE
PEBBLE MILLS: Batch & ¢
Dia x 9 8’ x
BALL MILLIS: Patter
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ROTARY DRVEUS
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ROTARY KILNS: 6
INTENSIVE MIXER: Sinfhson £3
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7432 N. 6th St Phila. 22, Pa
POplar 3-3505
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TUNNEL KILN PROBLEMS?
rts Overfiring, Underfiring Air Check
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BRITISH
CLAYWORKER
(Established 1892)
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information on
all phases of the
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Track Accessories
W. H. DYER CO., INC.
2110-B Railway Exchange Bidg
St. Louis 1, Mo.
F. J. FORD
Representative — Engineer
Clay Working Machinery
Car Tunnel Kilns — Dryers
P. O. Box 537 P. ©. Box 395
Dallas, Texas San Francisco, California
MISCEM ANEOUS
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WALTER C. STOLL & SONS
New and Used
CLAY WORKING
MACHINERY
$028 Alhambra Ave., Los Angeles 32, Calit
CApitol 3.1141
DRYER CARS
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FORREST A. PASCHAL
Phone: Sherwood 2-2749 & 2-2500
P. ©. Box 289 Silver City, N. C.
Representing:
Huber Worco
Robinson Ventilating Engineering Associates
Deister Concentartor
Monufacturers Equip. Lippman Engr. Wks.
Southern Fabricating
POTTERY PLANT EQUIP. 40
Complete Boyd DRY PRESS setur
DRYERS x30, 4x2 x40, 7x30
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CUTTERS: Steele £18, Chambers Ame
CRUSHERS: 12 1823 Steele 8 Brew
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CONVEYORS 4x70 4x90 @x151 x 200
Repres: Bonded Scale & Meh. ¢
MID-CONTINENT EQUIPMENT CO., INC
832! Gannon St. Lewis 24, Mo WYdown | -2826
KILNS, DRYERS
Complete Plant Design
For
Brick, Tile, Pipe, Refr.
Investigations — Reports
Clay Testing
T. W. GARVE
And Associates
69 W. Weisheimer Rd.
Columbus 14, Ohio
157
DECEMBER, I
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Sell Your Used
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Pacific Agents: Walter C. Stoll,
5028 Alhambra Ave., Los Angeles 32, Calif.
5.¢. Steele & SONS Statesville, N. C.
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74 Please say “I saw It in B&CR” BRICK & CLAY RECORD
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DECEMBER, 1957
CLAY
PIPE
SPECIALIST with 4 speeds forward
Designed especially for the horizontal extrusion
of sewer pipe, the F-R-H Type YX De-Airing
Machine equipped with a 4-speed transmission
(Inset) meets all conditions and extrudes 4’, 6”,
of 8” pipe at ‘maximum output. Proper gear
ratio is easily selected for the pipe size in pro-
duction and the 4-speed YX always gives peak
production.
The YX is built for the extra heavy-duty, start-
stop conditions of sewer pipe manufacturing and
has found wide acceptance with leading sewer
pipe producers all over the country. Sewer pipe
production with the YX can be fully automated
with mechanical handling of the pipe through
extrusion, forming, cutoff, trimming, scoring,
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trade-marking, and placing on the dryer car or
pallets.
Get complete information on sewer pipe manu-
facturing with F-R-H Ceramic Machinery. A
detailed analysis will be furnished if you will
send an outline of your production needs to
The Fate-Root-Heath Company, Dept. B-1,
Plymouth, Ohio.
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CERAMIC MACHINERY
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PRODUCTION
AMERICAN GRINDERS
Low in initial cost and high in production effici-
ency, “American” offers a variety of eight sizes to
meet varying plant requirements of from 15 to 80
tons per hour capacity.
“American” Grinders require only a minimum of
plant space, and offer a big savings with a low
power consumption, and a minimum of mainten-
AMERICAN DE-AIRING COMBINED
MACHINES Built for the manufacture of
building brick, fire brick, paving brick, hollow
block and drain tile, “American” De-Airing Com-
bined Machines range in capacity of from 3,000
to 10,000 building brick per hour, or 10 to 40
tons of hollow ware per hour.
This capacity is governed by the clay used, size
and kind of ware manufactured and by the op-
erating speed.
AMERICAN AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC
CUTTERS. “American” Cutters are complete
units with no extras needed. The hourly capacity
is 3,000 to 18,000 bricks . . . 23 standard brick
per cut. Every motion is electrically controlled
to give precision accuracy of any brick or tile
cut up to 14” x 14”.
A hinged measuring frame can be lifted to give
necessary room to change die or front. Bearings
are anti-friction, and there are no valves or gears.
For a Profitable, Non-Obligating Consultation, Write, Wire or Phone . . .
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Marion, Ohio, U.S.A.
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